Today in History

Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya.

South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.

Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.

Republican Robert Dole is elected Senate majority leader.

Operation Morvarid (Iran-Iraq War); Iranian Navy destroys over 70% of Iraqi Navy.

East Timor declares independence from Portugal.

The Anglican Church ordains the first two women as priests.

Cape Canaveral is renamed Cape Kennedy.

Jon Stewart, satirist, writer, director, author, television host, comedian; host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central.

Ernie Davis becomes the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy.

In Korea, 200,000 Communist troops launch attack on UN forces.

Dr. Edwin Land’s first Polaroid cameras go on sale in Boston.

Rita Mae Brown, novelist.

Sir Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet at Tehran, Iran, to hammer out war aims.