The Serbia v Albania qualifying match for the UEFA Euro soccer cup was canceled mid-game.
American reality show 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' premiered on the E! Network.
Two Israelis and a Palestinian share the Nobel Peace Prize.
NASA's space probe Magellan burned in the Venus atmosphere.
Up to 125,000 people marched in the first LGBT civil rights march in Washington, D.C.
Queen Elizabeth II officially reopened London's Euston Railway Station.
African American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Queen Elizabeth II personally opened the 23rd parliamentary session in Canada, the first and only time for her.
US Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager became the first-ever person to break the speed of sound, flying the Bell X-1 at 662 miles per hour.
The Blitz bombing of London's Balham Tube Station was bombed, killing over 60 people.
Ernest Hemingway's 'To Have and Have Not' was published in the US.
The original 'Winnie the Pooh' novel written by A. A. Milne was released.
439 miners lost their lives when an explosion occurred at the Universal Colliery in Senghenydd.
Former US President Theodore Roosevelt delivered a speech immediately after being shot.
The detective novel 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' by Arthur Conan Doyle was published.
Inventor George Eastman patented his 35mm photographic film in the US.
William the Conqueror defeated English forces at The Battle of Hastings.
