Pink Floyd’s rock opera, The Wall is released. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall’]

North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_858′]

Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_New_Zealand_Flight_901′]

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party’]

Ruzhou School massacre: A man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Yanming’]

Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suriname’]

Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species’]

Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Revolution’]

The Beatles release With the Beatles. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_the_Beatles’]

A mine explosion in Heilongjiang, China kills 108. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Heilongjiang_mine_explosion’]