TIM MAGUIRE

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between
the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union,
when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and
Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles
in Cuba.

The crisis lasted from 16 to 28 October 1962. The confrontation
is widely considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating
into full-scale nuclear war.

President Kennedy announces U.S. naval blockade of Cuba.

Clarence Thomas (left) with President George H.W. Bush. 

After a bitter confirmation hearing, the U.S. Senate voted 52 to
48 to confirm Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In July 1991, Thurgood Marshall, the first African American to
sit on the Supreme Court, announced his retirement after 34
years.

President George H.W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas, a
43-year-old African American judge known for his conservative
beliefs, to fill the seat.

TIM MAGUIRE

I Love Lucy is a television sitcom that originally aired on
CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, with a total
of 180 half-hour episodes spanning six seasons.

The series starred Lucille Ball (1911-1989) and her husband
Desi Arnaz (1917-1986) (above) along with Vivian Vance and William Frawley.

(between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506)

The first Columbus Day celebration took place on October
12, 1792, when the Columbian Order of New York, better
known as Tammany Hall, held an event to commemorate
the 300th anniversary of the historic landing.
 

In 1966, Mariano A. Lucca, from Buffalo, New York, founded
the National Columbus Day Committee, which lobbied to
make Columbus Day a federal holiday.      

These efforts were successful and legislation to create
Columbus Day as a federal holiday was signed by then
President Lyndon Johnson (below) on June 28, 1968,
to be effective beginning in 1971.