On This Day: October 15th

13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.

One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.

The 7.2 Mw Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.

Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.

The 6.7 Mw Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.

China launches Shenzhou 5, its first crewed space mission.

NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io.

The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.

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