Cuban missile crisis
On this day in 1962, President John F. Kennedy alerted Americans to the Cuban missile crisis, declaring a naval blockade to prevent further missile shipments to the island country 90 miles (145 km) off the coast of the U.S. 1962.
WikiLeaks, a website founded by Julian Assange that functioned as a clearinghouse for classified or otherwise privileged information, released thousands of U.S. documents relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 2010.
Chandrayaan-1, India’s first lunar space probe, was launched, and it later found water in the Moon‘s atmosphere. 2008.
French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre was announced the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature; however, he became the first person to decline the award. 1964.
French artist Paul Cézanne, considered one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, died at the age of 67. 1906.
