Todays History

A fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam resulting in 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.

Black September terrorists hijack Sabena Flight 571.

Vladimir Putin becomes the president of Russia.

The German zeppelin, the Hindenburg, catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space.

The Battle of Tewkesbury during the Wars of the Roses where Edward IV defeats the Lancastrian Army and kills Edward, Prince of Wales.

‘Gone with the Wind’ wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Osama bin Laden is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Diocletian and Maximian retire from the office of Roman Emperor.