• 2006

    Montenegro declares its independence.
     

  • 1989

    An explosion of gas from a leaking pipeline engulfs two passenger trains on the Trans-Siberian railway in Ural Mountains in Russia killing 575 people.
     

  • 1977

    Bob Marley and the Wailers release their classic album Exodus.
     

  • 1968

    In America, Radical feminist writer Valerie Solanas shoots artist Andy Warhol. Warhol survives the attack and Solanas is sentenced to three years in prison.
     

  • 1940

    The Luftwaffe bomb Paris killing 254 people.
     

  • 1098

    After a five month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders capture the city of Antioch (in modern day Turkey).
     

 
 
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