Alesha Renee Age, Birthday, Bio, Zodiac, Family & Fun Facts
1975
The 729-foot-long freighter SSĀ Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
1975
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism.
1979
A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
1983
Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.
1989
Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
1989
Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1995
In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People