October 16th, 2008

Today in History

2003:
iTunes released for Windows XP and Windows 2000.

2001:
U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: U.S. warplanes mistakenly bomb International Red Cross warehouse in Kabul, Afghanistan.

1995:
The Million Man March occurs in Washington, DC.

1975:
The Balibo Five, a group of Australian television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops.

1843:
Sir William Rowan Hamilton invents the concept of quaternions.