This day in history-
Metternich appointed minister of foreign affairs for Austria
1809: Named foreign minister of Austria this day in 1809 was the prince von Metternich, who revived Austria's standing in European affairs and whose organization of the Congress of Vienna maintained a balance of power in Europe.
1970: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1967: A prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution and a South American guerrilla leader, Che Guevara was captured and later shot to death by a Bolivian army.
1957: An accident at the Windscale nuclear facility in northwestern England caused a fire that burned for 16 hours and left 10 tons of radioactive fuel melted in the reactor core.
1918: Corporal Alvin Cullum York single-handedly captured 132 Germans and killed another 25 during the Meuse-Argonne offensive of World War I.
1871: The city of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, burned to the ground in hours, killing 1,152 people. At the same time, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed 4 square miles (10 square km) of Chicago, killing 250 and leaving 90,000 homeless.
1604: Jan Brunowski, Johannes Kepler's assistant, was the first to observe Kepler's nova.
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