“You are in the court of world opinion right now, and you can answer yes or no, you’ve denied that they exist, I want to know if you, if this if I have understood you correctly. ” “Continue your statement, you will have your answer in due course, I’m afraid.” “I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over, if that’s your decision.”

1971China's seat at the United Nations changes hands. The U.N. General Assembly votes to admit communist mainland China and expel Taiwan.

1983An American-led force invades Grenada, to oust a leftist government allied with Cuba and the Soviet Union. President Ronald Reagan calls the action necessary to protect U.S. citizens on the Caribbean island nation.

1854The battle that inspires the poem the Charge of the Light Brigade happens during the Crimean War. An English brigade of more than 600 men, facing hopeless odds, charges Russia's army during the Battle of Balaclava and suffers heavy losses.

1400Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales, one of English literature's greatest works, dies in London.

And 1999Golfer Payne Stewart and five others are killed when their Learjet crashes in South Dakota, after flying uncontrolled for four hours. Stewart was 42 years old.

Today in History, October 25th, Carload Bradley, the Associated Press.