Todays History

The final Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after 15,007,003 vehicles are produced

The Auckland Harbour Bridge in Auckland, New Zealand was opened.

The New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

The young West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow.

The Australian Schapelle Corby gets sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for drug smuggling by a court in Indonesia.

The Feral child Kaspar Hauser is found in the streets of Nuremberg.

The Oprah Winfrey Show airs for the last time after a run of 25 years.

Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is first published.

The head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, commits suicide while in Allied custody.