2005
62nd Venice Film Festival: “Brokeback Mountain” directed by Ang Lee wins Golden Lion.
1997
Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
1994
Pentium computer beats world chess champ Garry Kasparov.
1992
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Cleveland, Ohio on WNCX 98.5 FM.
1990
East and West Germany signed a treaty that meant the harmonizing of political and legal systems.
1989
Great Britain’s Princess Anne and Mark Phillips announced that they were separating. The marriage was 16 years old.
1951
1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf.
1897
Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope [kinetographic camera], a device which produces moving pictures.
1895
German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.
1888
Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper’s confirmed victims.