On This Day

This Day in History

1. 2019More than 2,000,000 people took part in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, making them the largest demonstrations in Hong Kong's history.
2. 2016British Member of Parliament Jo Cox was murdered within her constituency.
3. 2016Shanghai Disneyland Park opened its doors to the public, becoming the first Disney Park located in mainland China.
4. 2012As a member of the Shenzhou 9 crew, Liu Yang became the first Chinese woman to travel into space.
5. 1997OK Computer, the landmark third album by English rock band Radiohead, was released in the United Kingdom.
6. 1972English musician David Bowie released his breakthrough album, titled The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
7. 1963Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova flew aboard Vostok 6 to become the first woman in space.
8. 1960The psychological horror film Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted from Robert Bloch's novel of the same name, made its premiere.
9. 1936A Norwegian Air Lines Junkers Ju 52 aircraft crashed into a mountainside close to Hyllestad, Norway, resulting in the deaths of all seven passengers and crew.
10. 1904Irish author James Joyce began a relationship with Nora Barnacle, a date he later used as the setting for his 1922 novel Ulysses, now commemorated as Bloomsday.
11. 1883During the Victoria Hall disaster in Sunderland, England, 183 children were crushed to death as they rushed down stairs to gather gifts following a variety show.
12. 1819A powerful earthquake hit Gujarat, India's Kutch district, creating a local uplifted area that dammed the Nara River and was later called the Allah Bund ('Dam of God').
13. 1755Following a two-week siege, the French commander of Fort Beauséjour in modern-day New Brunswick, Canada, surrendered to British forces, ending Father Le Loutre's War.
14. 1632Thomas Purchase became the first permanent European settler of Pejepscot, Maine, after receiving a land patent from the Plymouth Company.
15. 1407Ming forces conquered Đại Ngu in present-day northern Vietnam, capturing the Hồ dynasty emperor Hồ Quý Ly and placing the nation under Chinese control.
16. 632Yazdegerd III ascended the throne at eight years old, becoming the final king of Iran's Sasanian Empire.