Todays History

Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).

A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their…

Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.

The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.

Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.

A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.

A massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people, one of the largest and most widespread power outages in…

Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh.

Mass riots in Kolkata begin; more than 4,000 people would be killed in 72 hours.

Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.