Today in history, October 15: the day's real events, retold as a classic newspaper front page and typeset fresh this morning.
The Long March rocket lifted clear of the Gobi Desert carrying a single crewman — China joined Russia and the United States as the only nations to put a man in orbit by their own means; the flight capped an eleven-year manned program.
The $3.3 billion probe will take seven years to reach the ringed planet — it carries a European lander that will parachute onto Titan, Saturn's largest moon, in 2004.
The former emperor, defeated after Waterloo and surrendered to the British in 1815, was sent to a South Atlantic island so remote that escape was judged impossible.
Sultan Suleiman's army withdrew after failing to storm the Austrian capital in 1529, ending the Ottoman advance up the Danube.
A single de Havilland Puss Moth carried the first mail on the new weekly Karachi-Madras route, flown by Mr. J.R.D. Tata.
The 1954 storm struck near Calabash, North Carolina, with winds reckoned at 130 mph before racing north to Canada.
The Norwegian committee cited the Soviet leader's efforts to lessen East-West tensions and open up his nation.
Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier rose above Paris in the brothers' hot air balloon, proving men could travel by air.
The Edmonton captain passed Gordie Howe's mark to become the league's all-time leading scorer.
The deposed queen was found guilty by the Revolutionary Tribunal and sentenced to death.
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