OCTOBER 25
1962:During an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting, U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson presents photographs of Soviet missile sites being constructed in Cuba. He demands an explanation from Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin, and says he'll wait "until hell freezes over." Zorin refuses to answer.
1854: Lord James Cardigan leads the Light Brigade in a misdirected charge at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. Cardigan's British cavalry is decimated by Russian artillery but immortalized in Lord Alfred Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
1983: A U.S. military force ordered by President Ronald Reagan invades Grenada following a coup led by hard-line Marxist Bernard Coard.
1854: Lord James Cardigan leads the Light Brigade in a misdirected charge at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. Cardigan's British cavalry is decimated by Russian artillery but immortalized in Lord Alfred Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade."
1983: A U.S. military force ordered by President Ronald Reagan invades Grenada following a coup led by hard-line Marxist Bernard Coard.
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