20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall
On this day, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the last soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Polish ex-president and Noble Prize winner Lech Walesa walked through Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Darmstadtium created for the first time
The heavily radioactive element with an atomic number of 110 and symbol Ds, was created at Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (Institute for Heavy Ion Research) in Darmstadt, Germany, the city after which the element is named.
Youngest person to become World Chess Champion
22-year-old Russian Gary Kasparov won the 13th World Chess Championship against Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest World Chess Champion.
Rolling Stone makes its debut
The biweekly popular culture magazine was founded by Jann Simon Wenner in San Francisco. The magazine launched the careers of many famous authors and published the early versions of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Night of broken glass
A pogrom against Jewish businesses, synagogues, and Jews in Germany and Austria was carried out by Sturmabteilung troops and civilians. The series of attacks that killed about 70 people and put 30,000 jews in prison is known as night of broken glass or Kristallnacht
- 1974 Alessandro Del Piero
Italian footballer - 1970 Chris Jericho
American/Canadian wrestler, singer-songwriter, actor - 1934 Carl Sagan
American astronomer, author - 1928 Anne Sexton
American poet - 1918 Spiro Agnew
American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States
- 2005 K. R. Narayanan
Indian politician, 10th President of India - 2004 Stieg Larsson
Swedish writer - 1970 Charles de Gaulle
French general, politician, President of France - 1953 Ibn Saud
Saudi Arabian king - 1940 Neville Chamberlain
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom