Panel from the Palace of Westminster

ca. 1847

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

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On This Day

• 2012 The pilots of a Sukhoi Superjet, ignoring alerts from the terrain warning system, crashed the aircraft into Mount Salak in Indonesia, resulting in the deaths of all 45 people on board.
Sukhoi Superjet 100Terrain awareness and warning system2012 Mount Salak Sukhoi Superjet crashMount Salak
• 2005 Pope Benedict XVI began the beatification process for his predecessor Pope John Paul II, waiving the standard five years required after the nominee's death.
Pope Benedict XVIBeatification of Pope John Paul IIBeatificationPope John Paul II
• 2001 Police at the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra, Ghana, fired tear gas to quell unrest at a football match, leading to a stampede that killed 126 people.
Accra Sports StadiumTear gasAccra Sports Stadium disaster
• 1992 An underground methane explosion occurred at the Westray Mine in Plymouth, Nova Scotia, killing all 26 Canadian coal miners who were working at the time.
MethaneWestray MinePlymouth, Pictou County, Nova Scotia
• 1980 Part of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida collapsed after a pier was struck by the MV Summit Venture, killing 35 people.
Sunshine Skyway BridgeMV Summit Venture
• 1979 Prominent Iranian Jew Habib Elghanian was executed after having been convicted by a revolutionary tribunal of various charges, triggering a mass exodus of Jews from Iran.
Iranian JewsHabib ElghanianIslamic Revolutionary Court
• 1977 The Hotel Polen in Amsterdam was destroyed by fire (pictured), leaving 33 people dead.
AmsterdamHotel Polen fire
• 1968 About 200 students at Bucks County Community College held a protest after the college canceled a planned speech by gay rights activist Dick Leitsch.
Bucks County Community College1968 Bucks County Community College protestDick Leitsch
• 1964 Ngô Đình Cẩn, a younger brother and the confidant of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, was executed by Nguyễn Khánh's military junta.
Ngô Đình CẩnSouth VietnamNgo Dinh DiemNguyễn Khánh
• 1961 In a speech to U.S. broadcasters, FCC chairman Newton Minow described commercial television programming as "a vast wasteland".
Federal Communications CommissionNewton N. MinowTelevision and the Public Interest
• 1960 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it would approve the use of Searle's Enovid, the first combined oral contraceptive pill.
Food and Drug AdministrationG.D. Searle, LLCMestranol/noretynodrelCombined oral contraceptive pill
• 1944 World War II: The Japanese Take Ichi convoy arrived at Halmahera in the Dutch East Indies after losing many ships and thousands of troops to Allied attacks while attempting to carry two divisions of troops from China to New Guinea.
World War IITake Ichi convoyHalmaheraDutch East IndiesNew Guinea
• 1918 First World War: Germany repelled Britain's second attempt to blockade the Belgian port of Ostend.
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• 1877 An earthquake struck northern Chile, leading to the deaths of 2,385 people, mostly victims of the ensuing tsunami, as far away as Hawaii and Fiji.
1877 Iquique earthquakeTsunami
• 1864 Second Schleswig War: The Battle of Heligoland (depicted), the last naval engagement fought by squadrons of wooden ships, took place between the Danish and Austro-Prussian fleets.
Second Schleswig WarBattle of Heligoland (1864)