Historydraft LogoHistorydraft Logo
Historydraft
beta
Historydraft Logo
Historydraft
beta

  • Yuro ravine, Bolivia
    Saturday Oct 7, 1967
    Che Guevara

    Guevara's guerrilla encampment

    Yuro ravine, Bolivia
    Saturday Oct 7, 1967

    On October 7, 1967, an informant apprised the Bolivian Special Forces of the location of Guevara's guerrilla encampment in the Yuro ravine.




  • Yuro ravine, Bolivia
    Sunday Oct 8, 1967
    Che Guevara

    Wounded and taken prisoner

    Yuro ravine, Bolivia
    Sunday Oct 8, 1967

    On the morning of October 8, they encircled the area with two battalions numbering 1,800 soldiers and advanced into the ravine triggering a battle where Guevara was wounded and taken prisoner while leading a detachment with Simeón Cuba Sarabia.




  • La Higuera, Bolivia
    Monday Oct 9, 1967
    Che Guevara

    Execution order

    La Higuera, Bolivia
    Monday Oct 9, 1967

    October 9, Bolivian President René Barrientos ordered that Guevara be killed. The order was relayed to the unit holding Guevara by Félix Rodríguez reportedly despite the United States government's desire that Guevara be taken to Panama for further interrogation.




  • U.S.
    Oct, 1967
    Internet

    First ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles

    U.S.
    Oct, 1967

    Bringing in Larry Roberts from MIT, he initiated a project to build such a network. Roberts and Thomas Merrill had been researching wide area networking for computer time-sharing. At the first ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles in October 1967, Roberts presented a proposal for the "ARPA net", a distributed network using Interface Message Processors to create a message switching network. At the conference, Roger Scantlebury presented Donald Davies' work on packet switching and mentioned the work of Paul Baran at RAND. Roberts incorporated their concepts into the ARPANET design and upgraded the proposed communications speed to be used from 2.4 kbps to 50 kbps.




  • U.S.
    Thursday Oct 26, 1967
    Audrey Hepburn

    Wait Until Dark

    U.S.
    Thursday Oct 26, 1967

    Audrey has also appeared in Wait Until Dark, is a suspense thriller in which Hepburn demonstrated her acting range by playing the part of a terrorized blind woman. Filmed on the brink of her divorce, it was a difficult film for her, as husband Mel Ferrer was its producer. She lost fifteen pounds under the stress, but she found solace in co-star Richard Crenna and director Terence Young.




<