On this day — June 23

leading to an 18-day rescue operation.

resulting in 96 deaths and wounding 200 others.

by 52% to 48%.

Pakistan, killing ten climbers and a local guide.

Massachusetts by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian.

A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.

a new state-of-the-art manufacturing building for the International Space Station, officially opens at Kennedy Space Center.

beginning the popular video game franchise.

An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.

it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale.

President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about illegally using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.