This day in 1945 marked the beginning of the Nuremberg trials.
On this day in 1962, in response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, US President John F. Kennedy ended the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
On this day in 1990, the Straits Exchange Foundation was established in Taiwan. The foundation is a semi-official organization charged with the handling of relations with China in the absence of official ties between the two sides.
And on this day in 2008, after critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached its lowest level since 1997.