Disaster: A fire at a nightclub in Argentina kills 194 people (2004). Politics: The USSR is formed (1922). Disaster: A fire at a theatre in Chicago leaves 600 people dead (1903)....

Disaster management: Hong Kong begins to kill 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain. (1997). Disaster: A plane crash at Miami International Airport, kills 101 people (1972). Politics: Mackenzie King is sworn in as Prime Minister (1921)....

Disaster: An earthquake in Australia kills 13 people (1989). Disaster: A plane crash in Portland, Oregon, kills 10 people (1978). An earthquake in Italy leaves at least 72,000 people dead (1908).   ...

Space travel: Apollo 8 lands in the Pacific Ocean (1968). Politics: The USSR invades Afghanistan (1979). An avalance in the United Kingdom kills eight people (1836)....

Politics: Former president Gerald Ford dies (2006). Disaster:  An earthquake off Indonesia creates a tsunami that devastates areas on the Indian Ocean rim, killing over 230,000 people.(2004). Disaster: A fire at a nursing home fire in St. John's, Newfoundland, kills 21 people (1976)....

Politics: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the USSR, one day before the Soviet Union’s collapse. (1991). Communications: There is the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet, markingthe beginning of the World Wide Web (1990). Politics: Nicolae Ceauşescu, former communist President of Romania, is condemned to death and executed (1989). ...

Space travel: The crew of Apollo 8 are the first humans to enter the Moon’s orbit (1968) Disaster: A volcanic eruption in New Zealand causes a flood that sweeps away a train filled with passengers, killing more than 150 people (1953). Media: Canadian physicist and inventor Reginald Fessenden transmits the world’s first radio broadcast of entertainment and music to a general audience (1906). ...

Politics: Jeanne Sauvé is appointed Canada's first female Governor General (1983). Business: The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories, later becoming the fundamental building block of modern electronic devices (1947). Communications: Reginald Fessenden, while experimenting with a high-frequency spark transmitter, successfully transmits speech via radio technology (1900)....

Disaster: An ask dike ruptures in Tennessee, covering the area with 1.8 metres of sludge (2008). Politics: Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate re-opens, re-unifying East and West German (1989). Politics: Justice Minister Trudeau calls for the de-criminalization of homosexuality (1967)....

Space travel: Apollo 8 is launched, and it will be the first spacecraft to go to the far side of the moon (1968). Politics: Violence between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots begins (1963). Disaster: An earthquake and tsunami hits Japan, killing 1,362 people (1946). ...