In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by…

The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.

Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.

Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.

Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.

Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya.

The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.

Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.

Joseph Goebbels who was was a German Nazi politician and then Hitlers Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945 takes his own life. Joseph Goebbels…