1993 Cheeky education The president of Columbia's largest university, National University, "moons" his audience in response to being interrupted by students during a speech.

1977 First Mother-In-Law Day It is now celebrated on the 3rd Sunday in October.

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev announces that the Cuban missile bases would be dismantled.

1949 First woman U.S. ambassador Eugenie Moore Anderson is sworn in by Pres. Truman as ambassador to Denmark.

1929 First child born in an airplane In a transport plane over Miami, Florida.

1927 First scheduled international passenger flight Pan Am begins flying a route from Key West to Havana.

1922 Benito Mussolini He leads the Fascist Party on a march against Rome, overthrowing the Facta government. He then became prime minister.

1919 Volstead Act Passed by Congress over Pres. Woodrow Wilson's veto. It set maximum alcohol content in non-intoxicating beverages to ½ of 1%

1913 Krazy Kat George Herriman's comic strip premiers.

1904 Fingerprinting St. Louis, Missouri becomes the first U.S. police department to adopt fingerprinting.

1897 Thomas Edison The American inventor announces his new process for recovering iron in low grade ore.

1893 The Pathetic Tchaikovsky's masterpiece 6th symphony is performed for the first time, nine days before his death.

1890 Fingerprinting Nature magazine published the first article to advocate the use of fingerprinting.

1886 Statue of Liberty The 151-foot-high gift from the French people is dedicated.

1795 First U.S. extradition treaty with a foreign country The Jay Treaty - signed with Great Britain in 1794 - is signed by Pres Washington.

1793 Cotton gin is invented by Eli Whitney.

1636 Harvard University The oldest college in America is founded.

1967 Julia Roberts American actress. Film: Steel Magnolias (1989), Pretty Woman (1990), Flatliners (1990), Sleeping With the Enemy (1991), and Hook (1991).

1965 Jami Gertz American actress. TV: Square Pegs (Muffy).

1955 Bill Gates (William Henry Gates III), American businessman. Co-founder of Microsoft, and once the world's richest man.

1949 Bruce Jenner American track athelete, Olympic gold medal winner (1976).

1947 Telma Louise Hopkins American singer, actor, with Tony Orlando and Dawn. Music: Knock Three Times (1971, #1) and Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Ole Oak Tree (1973, #1). TV: Gimme a Break (Addy) and Family Matters (Rachel).

1947 Susan Jane Rosenkowitz South African mother. She gave birth to the first recorded surviving sextuplets (1974). Source: Guinness Book of World Records

1944 Dennis Franz American actor. TV: Hill Street Blues (Lt. Buntz).

1939 Jane Alexander (Jane Quigley), American Tony-Emmy-winning actress. Stage: The Great White Hope (1969, Tony). Film: All the President's Men (1976) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979). TV: Eleanor and Franklin (1976, Eleanor Roosevelt) and Playing for Time (1980, Emmy). She was selected as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (1993).

1936 Charlie Daniels American singer, fiddler.

1929 Dody Goodman American actress. TV: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (Mary's mother) and Diff'rent Strokes (Aunt Sophia).

1914 Jonas Edward Salk d. 1995 American physician, scientist. He discovered a polio vaccine in 1953, saving thousands from the crippling disease. In 1952 alone, polio paralyzed 21,000 people and killed 3,100.

1909 Francis Bacon d. 1992 British artist, one of the leading artists of the 20th century.

1902 Elsa Lanchester d. 1986 (Elizabeth Sullivan), English singer, actress. Film: The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, the blushing bride).

1808 Horace Smith d. 1893 American gun-maker, co-founder of Smith & Wesson (1857).

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