Every date has a story. American history, wars, disasters, inventions and legends, posted on the day it happened.
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A rookie defensive tackle's 1-yard touchdown cost Las Vegas sports books hundreds of thousands of dollars the last time the Patriots met the Bears with a title on the line.
William "The Refrigerator" Perry scored in Super Bowl XX, a 46-10 rout. Walter Payton didn't score at all.
64 years ago today, JFK told the nation that missile sites being built in Cuba could strike as far north as Hudson Bay, Canada, and as far south as Lima, Peru.
Oct 22, 1962: he announced a naval "quarantine" of Cuba. Photo: a U-2 spy image of a site, shown to him Oct 16.
229 years ago today, Boston launched a warship that's still in the US Navy.
USS Constitution took three tries on Oct 21, 1797. With John Adams watching, she stalled after 27 feet, then 31. Today she's the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.
Happy 229th, Old Ironsides.
221 years ago today, Britain's fleet captured 17 French and Spanish ships at Trafalgar.
It lost zero.
Lord Nelson, the admiral who planned it, was shot on the deck of HMS Victory. Here are 10 things that happened on October 21:
Aboard Olympic for the crash was a stewardess named Violet Jessop.
In April 1912 she was aboard Titanic, and survived. In 1916 she was aboard Britannic, the third sister, when it hit a German mine. She survived that too. They called her "Miss Unsinkable."
May 12, 1918. English Channel, US troops aboard. Olympic spotted a surfaced U-boat 550 yards ahead, turned, and rammed it.
U-103 sank. It was later found the sub had been getting ready to torpedo her. Her war nickname: "Old Reliable."
October 20, 1910. Belfast.
The world's largest ocean liner slid into the water without ever being christened.
She was RMS Olympic, Titanic's older sister. She outlived both of her sisters, and her life was stranger than Titanic's.
