Dutch/American physicist, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Hungarian/American magician, actor
American actor
American composer, songwriter
Austrian/American psychotherapist
Russian chess player
American poet
Former Queen of England and Ireland
English army officer
French author
James VI of Scotland succeeded Elizabeth I and became King James I of England, thus uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
Canada became one of the first countries to extend voting rights to all black citizens regardless of their status or wealth.
German physician Robert Koch identified and described the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium, which causes tuberculosis, a disease that had been ravaging populations for centuries.
Russian physicist Aleksander Popov made history by successfully transmitting the words “Heinrich Hertz” from one building of St. Petersburg University to another using radio waves.
The US spacecraft Ranger 9 transmitted the first-ever live images of the Moon's surface to millions of viewers before crashing into the Moon in a controlled landing.
The Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground, resulting in a massive oil spill in Prince William Sound that caused severe environmental damage and killed hundreds of thousands of seabirds and other wildlife.
NATO launched a bombing campaign against Yugoslavia without a UN mandate, sparking international controversy and leading to significant loss of life and destruction of infrastructure.
Argentine President Isabel Martinez de Perón was overthrown in a military coup headed by Jorge Rafael Videla, leading to a brutal dictatorship that lasted until 1983.
The Chinese province of Hubei, where the COVID-19 outbreak originated, ended a two-month lockdown, while Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered a 21-day lockdown for the world's second most populous country in response to the pandemic.