The Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of
France to the people of the United States,was dedicated in
New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland (below).

Actress Julia Fiona Roberts was born in Smyrna,
Georgia. She’s 57 years young today.

1990                               2000

Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy.

Complicated and tension-filled negotiations between the United
States and the Soviet Union finally resulted in a plan to end the
two-week-old Cuban Missile Crisis. A frightening period in which
nuclear holocaust seemed imminent began to come to an end.