B.C. 399 Socrates was sentenced to death.
1564 Galileo Galilei was born.
1898 An American ship sunk by the explosion in Cuba's Havana harbor: More than 260 people were died. The United States held Spain responsible for the incident and waged war on Spain two weeks later.
1961 A passenger plane, including the US ice skating team, fell in Belgium. 73 people died in the accident.
1970 A DC-9 passenger airliner from the Dominican Republic fell into the sea after taking off from Santo Domingo: 102 people were died.
1982 In Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada, 84 people died when an oil extraction platform sank due to the storm.
1995 Hacker Kevin Mitnick has been arrested by the FBI for accusing the US of hacking into some of the most secure computer systems.
2005 YouTube, the video sharing site was founded.
2012 357 people were died by a fire in the prison of Comayagua city of Honduras, 80 prisoners were seriously injured.
2013 In Russia, more than a thousand people were injured due to the meteor falling into the Chelyabinsk region to the south of the Ural Mountains. 10 regions of Chelyabinsk province were affected by meteor rain.
2017 India set a new record by placing 104 nano-satellites in orbit with the same rocket.
Image from Pixabay.com