2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates on its way back to Earth
All 7 astronauts were killed in the disaster.
1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 year in exile
His triumphant return marked the beginning of the Iranian Revolution.
1968 – Eddie Adams takes one of the Vietnam War's best-known pictures
The image of the execution of a Vietcong officer in Saigon helped build opposition to the war.
1960 – Four black students start the Greensboro sit-ins
Their refusal to leave a “whites only” lunch counter was a milestone in the fight against racial segregation in the United States.
1884 – The first fascicle of the “Oxford English Dictionary” is published
The book contained entries A to Ant.
1946 – Elisabeth Sladen
English actress
1931 – Boris Yeltsin
Russian politician, 1st President of Russia
1901 – Clark Gable
American actor
1894 – John Ford
American director
1552 – Edward Coke
English judge, politician
2002 – Hildegard Knef
German actress
1981 – Geirr Tveitt
Norwegian composer
1976 – Werner Heisenberg
German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1966 – Buster Keaton
American actor, director, producer
1851 – Mary Shelley
English author
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