• 676 Donus begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Pope Adeodatus II
• 1712 Suriname government gives French hijacker Jacques Cassard, ƒ682800.
• 1921 Eugene O’Neill’s “Anna Christie” premieres in NYC.
• 1944 Auschwitz begins gassing inmates.
• 1955 Clarton-Schwerdt & Schaffer discover polio virus
• 1957 The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
• 1960 Penguin Books cleared of obscenity for publishing DH Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”.
• 1963 Ngô ?ình Di?m, the President of South Vietnam, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup by the South Vietnamese Army.
• 1974 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
• 1977 Microbiologist Carl R. Woese and scientists from the University of Illinois announce the identification of methanogens, a form of microbial life (Archaea) dating back some 3.5 billion years.
• 1983 “Thriller” single released worldwide by Michael Jackson
• 1984 Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962
• 1988 The Morris worm, first internet-distributed computer worm to gain mainstream media attention launched from MIT.
• 1994 Benzine explosion in Dronka Egypt, 400+ killed.
• 1997 Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam.
• 2000 The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
• 2014 60 people were killed and 110 injured by a suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan.
Source: www.onthisday.com
