2010
WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
2000
Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
1992
25th Olympic Games open in Barcelona, Spain.
1985
Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirms he has AIDS.
1983
Metallica’s debut album Kill ‘Em All is released on Megaforce Records.
1978
Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England. She had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
1964
Beatles’ album “A Hard Day’s Night” goes #1, stays #1 for 14 weeks.
1946
The U.S. detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It was the first underwater test of the device.
At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team
1944
1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262).
1871
Carousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa.
1837
The first commercial use of an electric telegraph successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone between Euston and Camden Town in London.
