This Day, That Year – October 15

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, an Indian aerospace scientist who served as the eleventh president of India, was born on this day in 1931.

Did you know that:

• Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, poet, writer, and philologist born on this day in 1844
• Eleven-year-old Grace Bedell wrote to Abraham Lincoln telling him to grow a beard on this day in 1860
• Lee A. Iacocca, a CEO of Chrysler Corp, was born on this day in 1924