The Russian space station Mir plunges into the sea
The legendary station was disposed of in a controlled crash after 15 years in space.
Archbishop Óscar Romero calls on members of the El Salvador armed forces to stop killing their fellow Salvadorians
A death squad assassinated the archbishop only one day after his famous sermon.
Pakistan becomes the world’s first Islamic republic
The Dominion of Pakistan also included the area of modern-day Bangladesh or East Pakistan, which seceded in 1971.
The Enabling Act of 1933 grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers in Germany
With the Ermächtigungsgesetz, Hitler was awarded the legal right to issue laws even if in breach of the German constitution.
- 1968 Damon Albarn
English singer-songwriter, producer, actor - 1912 Wernher von Braun
German physicist, engineer - 1910 Akira Kurosawa
Japanese director, screenwriter, producer - 1882 Amalie Emmy Noether
German mathematician - 1749 Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician, astronomer
- 2015 Lee Kuan Yew
Chinese/Singaporean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore - 2011 Elizabeth Taylor
English/American actress - 1992 Friedrich Hayek
Austrian/English economist, philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate - 1931 Bhagat Singh
Indian activist - 1801 Paul I of Russia
