Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh, starting a 51-day standoff.

1990

Milestone

Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-36.

1986

Milestone

Olof Palme, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden

is assassinated in Stockholm.

1985

Milestone

The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers.

1983

Milestone

The final episode of MAS*H airs

with almost 110 million viewers.

1975

Milestone

In London, an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.

1974

Politics

The United States and Israel launch attacks across Iran, assassinating Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei

Prime Minister Modi of India inaugurates the 2nd Space Port of India - Kulasekarapattinam Spaceport.

Two trains collide south of the Vale of Tempe in Greece

Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church

During the religious violence in Gujarat

The 2001 Nisqually earthquake

An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 1,100 deaths.

A Turkish military memorandum results in the collapse of the coalition government in Turkey.

Bureau of Alcohol

Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-36.

Olof Palme, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden

The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers.

The final episode of M*A*S*H airs

In London, an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.

The British election ends in a hung parliament after the Jeremy Thorpe-led Liberal Party achieved their biggest vote share since 1929.

The final episode of MAS*H airs