A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Pakistan_factory_fires’]

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider’]

Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monarchs_in_Britain_by_length_of_reign’]

Black Friday, a massacre by soldiers against protesters in Tehran, results in 700–3000 deaths, it marks the beginning of the end of the monarchy in…

Pope Alexander III is chosen. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Alexander_III’]

Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson’s Field, Jordan….

The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmerwald_Conference’]

Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_1866′]

Beslan school siege results in over 330 fatalities, including 186 children. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_siege’]

NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19. [rdp-wiki-embed…