TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, OCT. 25, the 299th day of 2016. There are 67 days left in the year. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY:

On this date in 1962, at a U.N. Security Council meeting, U.S. Ambassador Adlai E. Stevenson II demanded that Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin confirm or deny the existence of Sovietbuilt missile bases in Cuba; Stevenson then presented photographic evidence of the bases to the Council.

In 1415, during the Hundred Years’ War, outnumbered English soldiers led by Henry V defeated French troops in the Battle of Agincourt in northern France.

In 1854, the “Charge of the Light Brigade” took place during the Crimean War as an English brigade of more than 600 men charged the Russian army, suffering heavy losses.

In 1929, former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall was convicted in Washington, D.C., of accepting a $100,000 bribe from oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny. (Fall was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $100,000; he served nine months.)

In 1945, Taiwan became independent of Japanese colonial rule.

In 1954, a meeting of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Cabinet was carried live on radio and television, the only

presidential Cabinet meeting to be broadcast. In 1971, the U.N. General Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan. In 1983, a U.S.-led force invaded Grenada at the order of President Ronald Reagan, who said the action was needed to protect U.S. citizens there. In 1994, Susan Smith of Union, S.C., claimed a black carjacker had driven off with her two young sons (Smith later confessed to drowning the children in John D. Long Lake and was convicted of murder).

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Former American League President Bobby Brown is 92. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Bob Knight is 76. Pop singer Helen Reddy is 75. Rock singer Jon Anderson (Yes) is 72. Rock musician Glenn Tipton (Judas Priest) is 69. Actress Nancy Cartwright (TV: “The Simpsons”) is 59. Rock musician Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers; Chickenfoot) is 55.