Todays History

Leonid Brezhnev is awarded the Order of Victory.

The Mars Odyssey space probe starts mapping the surface of Mars using the thermal emission imaging system.

The first Church of Scientology is opened in Los Angeles.

Newsweek magazine is published for the first time.

Hezbollah is founded.

The complete human genome is first published in scientific journal, Nature.

YouTube is launched

Israel obtains the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Two year old James Bulger is abducted and murdered by two ten year old boys.

A programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting multi millions of emails using a trick photo of the tennis star.