On this day — October 15

Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.

At least 215 were killed.

or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.

causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.

its first crewed space mission.

under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.

an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.

Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland.

Italy, killing all 37 people on board.