Todays History

The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean.

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

Abel Tasman is the first recorded European to sight New Zealand.

HMS Duchess sinks after a collision with HMS Barham off the coast of Scotland with the loss of 124 men

Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese in Cronulla, New South Wales;…

United Nations General Assembly recognizes the Convention against Torture.

A volcano on White Island, New Zealand, kills 22 people after it erupts.

Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first band to perform on all seven continents.

The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.

A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.