Important Events
2001 War in Afghanistan begins
1996 Fox News broadcasts for the first time
1959 People on Earth Get the First Glimpse of the Dark Side of the Moon
1944 Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommando Revolt
1919 KLM is formed
Births On This Day
1982 Jermain Defoe
(English footballer)
1967 Toni Braxton
(American singer-songwriter, producer, actress)
1952 Vladimir Putin
(Russian politician, 4th President of Russia)
1931 Desmond Tutu
(South African archbishop, activist, Nobel Prize laureate)
1885 Niels Bohr
(Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
Deaths On This Day
2012 Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano
(Mexican drug lord)
1896 Emma Darwin
(English wife of Charles Darwin)
1849 Edgar Allan Poe
(American author, poet)
1792 George Mason
(American politician)
1708 Guru Gobind Singh
(Indian guru)