On This Day

This Day in History

1. 2017Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese journalist and anti-corruption activist, died in a car bomb attack that occurred in Bidnija.
2. 2013Lao Airlines Flight 301 plunged into the Mekong River in the deadliest air crash in Laos, causing the deaths of all 49 individuals on board.
3. 1991A man crashed his vehicle through a Luby's Cafeteria window in Killeen, Texas, and opened fire, killing 23 individuals before taking his own life.
4. 1973Global controversy was sparked when the Norwegian Nobel Committee revealed that the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize would be shared by Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ.
5. 1964China turned into the fifth nuclear power in the world following the successful completion of Project 596.
6. 1950The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written by C. S. Lewis as the initial book in The Chronicles of Narnia series, was released in the United Kingdom.
7. 1944An aerial engagement spanning four days over Taiwan concluded in a decisive victory for the United States, obliterating hundreds of Japanese military facilities and airplanes.
8. 1943During the Holocaust, 1,259 members of the Jewish community were captured when the Gestapo raided the Roman Ghetto, after which the majority were dispatched to Auschwitz.
9. 1926Zoltán Kodály's Hungarian folk opera, Háry János (poster pictured), made its debut at Budapest's Royal Hungarian Opera House.
10. 1923The Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio was established in Hollywood by Roy and Walt Disney, later expanding into a premier global media and entertainment conglomerate.
11. 1916The inaugural family planning clinic in the United States was set up in Brooklyn, New York, by Margaret Sanger.
12. 1905British Raj officials split the Bengal Presidency, dividing the predominantly Hindu western regions from the predominantly Muslim eastern regions.
13. 1875Brigham Young University was created in the American city of Provo, Utah.
14. 1841Queen's College was set up in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, by the Church of Scotland.
15. 1834A blaze ignited by the incineration of wooden tally sticks ruined the majority of the Palace of Westminster in London.
16. 1813Over 500,000 soldiers took part as the Sixth Coalition engaged Napoleon's French troops at the Battle of Leipzig, marking the largest conflict of the Napoleonic Wars.