編者?電影《Thirteen Days 》根據白宮當年的錄音和記錄基本如實還原了肯尼迪政府在古巴導彈危機時的情景。遺憾的是電影沒有反映出來另外當事人,古巴和蘇聯政府的動作。編者?
Cuban missile crisis
On this day in 1962, President John F. Kennedy alerted Americans to the Cuban missile crisis, declaring a naval blockade to prevent further missile shipments to the island country 90 miles (145 km) off the coast of the U.S.
French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre was announced the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature; however, he became the first person to decline the award.
1978
教皇保羅二世加冕
教皇約翰·保羅二世的教皇加冕就職為新教皇。保羅二世原名Karol Jozef Wojtyla。出生於波蘭的沃伊蒂拉,是自1523年教皇阿德裏安六世去世以來第一位非意大利教皇。他成為教皇曆史上任職時間第二長的教皇,並對20世紀後期冷戰時期重點曆史事件產生相當大的影響。
編者?保羅二世來自波蘭,內心深處極度反共產主義,他對結束冷戰做出了相當大的努力和貢獻。編者?
Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II; born Karol Jozef Wojtyla. The Polish-born Wojtyla was the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI died in 1523; he would become the second-longest serving pope in the history of the Papacy and exercise considerable influence on events of the later portion of the 20th century.
WikiLeaks, a website founded by Julian Assange that functioned as a clearinghouse for classified or otherwise privileged information, released thousands of U.S. documents relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.