Todays History

A severe earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

The controversial Hand of God goal is scored by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England.

The Tauranga Campaign of the New Zealand Land Wars ends.

The University of Oxford receives its Royal charter.

The Garfield cartoon strip makes its debut.

The Reinsurance Treaty is signed by Germany and Russia.

After a televised low-speed highway pursuit, OJ Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

The Ford Motor Company is formed.

A tsunami in Japan kills more than 22,000 people.

TWA Flight 847 is hijacked by Lebanese Islamist organization Hezbollah after take-off from Athens, Greece.