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Born Person description occupation position held country of citizenship given name 2018-01-15 Chicago West: Kanye West & Kim Kardashian's daughter United States: Chicago: 2008-01-15 Christopher Convery: American actor actor child actor: United States: Christopher: 2007-01-15 Laura Frličková: Slovak athlete (born 2007) athletics competitor ...
The driver and 26 children die in one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history. [13] 1959 – Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched but fails to achieve orbit. [14]
2017 – The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army captures Al-Bab from ISIL. [16] 2019 – Atlas Air Flight 3591, a Boeing 767 freighter, crashes into Trinity Bay near Anahuac, Texas, killing all three people on board. [17]
1952 – Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada. 1960 – A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board. 1966 – Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket.
1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.; 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
1924 – Samuel Gompers, English-born American labor leader, founded the American Federation of Labor (b. 1850) 1927 – Mehmet Nadir, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1856) 1929 – Rosina Heikel, Finnish physician (b. 1842) [100] 1930 – Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
2005 – YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos. 2008 – Northern Illinois University shooting : A gunman opens fire in a lecture hall of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb County, Illinois , resulting in six fatalities ...
Library of Congress: Today in History; History Channel (US): This Day in History; History Channel (UK): This Day in History; New Zealand Government: Today in New Zealand History Archived 2017-04-14 at the Wayback Machine; Computer History Museum: This Day in History; Internet Movie Database: This Day in Movie History