On this day:
1923 The Walt Disney Company is Founded by brothers Walt and Roy Disney
1945 Food and Agriculture Organization established
1986 Italian Mountaineer, Reinhold Messner becomes the first person to scale all eight-thousander peaks
Born on this day:
1888 Eugene O’Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
Gone on this day:
1793 Marie Antoinette, Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France