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1809: Metternich appointed minister of foreign affairs for Austria.Named foreign minister of Austria this day in 1809 was the prince von Metternich, who revived Austria's standing in European affairs and whose organization of the Congress of Vienna maintained a balance of power in Europe.More events on this day2001:In Italy's worst civilian air disaster in nearly 30 years, a Cessna took a wrong turn on a taxiway at Linate Airport in Milan and crashed into an SAS airliner about to take off, which exploded, killing 118 people, including 4 airport workers. |
1970:Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. |
1967:A prominent communist figure in the Cuban Revolution and a South American guerrilla leader, Che Guevara was captured and later shot to death by a Bolivian army. |
1957:An accident at the Windscale nuclear facility in northwestern England caused a fire that burned for 16 hours and left 10 tons of radioactive fuel melted in the reactor core. |
1918:Corporal Alvin Cullum York single-handedly captured 132 Germans and killed another 25 during the Meuse-Argonne offensive of World War I. |
1871:The city of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, burned to the ground in hours, killing 1,152 people. At the same time, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed 4 square miles (10 square km) of Chicago, killing 250 and leaving 90,000 homeless. |
1604:Jan Brunowski, Johannes Kepler's assistant, was the first to observe Kepler's nova. |
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