2017
Producer Harvey Weinstein is fired from The Weinstein Company after allegations of sexual abuse
2012
Women’s rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai is shot three times by a Taliban gunman as she tried to board her school bus in Swat district of northwest Pakistan.
2006
North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.
1994
The U.S. sent troops and warships to the Persian Gulf in response to Saddam Hussein sending thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks toward the Kuwaiti border.
1993
Casino de Montréal opens in the former French Pavilion on the Expo 67 site.
1986
“Phantom of the Opera” premieres in London, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and starring Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman.
1974
Oskar Schindler, died in Hildesheim, West Germany. He is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.
1973
Elvis Presley and Priscilla divorced after six years of marriage.
1967
A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
1966
Rolling Stones 1st LP recorded “Got Live if you Want It”.
1855
American inventor Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor.