The United Nations (UN) was formally established on this day in 1945. less
than a month after the end of World War II. The Charter was ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a
majority of other signatories.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (left) vowed to end the Korean War
on this day in 1952.
D .C . Sniper Suspects Arrested on this day in 2002.
In London on this day in 2003, the last commercial supersonic
Concorde flight landed.
The Crew marks Concorde’s final supersonic trip.
On this day in 2005.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
(February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005)
Rosa Parks was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement,
whom the United States Congress called "the first lady
of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991)