1995 – WikiWikiWebthe world's first wikiis launched
Ward Cunningham introduced the wikior user-editable website. TodayWikipedia is the world's most well known and widely used wiki.
1988 – Thousands of people join the first peaceful demonstrations against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia
The Candle Demonstration was brutally dispersed by the Police but was the first step towards the Velvet Revolution that resulted in the establishment of democracy in the country.
1975 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is assassinated by his nephew
Despite the king's dying wish that the life of the assassin be sparedFaisal bin Musaid was publicly executed on June 181975.
1957 – 6 countries found the European Economic Community
The EEC's establishment was an important step towards European integration and the creation of the European Union (EU).
1949 – The Soviet Union begins deporting some 90,000 EstoniansLatviansand Lithuanians to some of Russia's most inhospitable areas
Operation Priboialso known as March deportationwas designed to weaken the Baltic nationalist movement. Most of the deporteeslabeled “enemies of the people” by the Soviet authoritieswere women and children.
1976 – Wladimir Klitschko
Ukrainian boxer
1947 – Elton John
English singer-songwriterpianistproduceractor
1942 – Aretha Franklin
American singer-songwriterpianist
1914 – Norman Borlaug
American agronomisthumanitarianNobel Prize laureate
1867 – Arturo Toscanini
Italian conductor
2006 – Buck Owens
American singer-songwriterguitarist
1980 – Milton H. Erickson
American psychiatrist
1931 – Ida B. Wells
American civil rights activist
1918 – Claude Debussy
French composer
1860 – James Braid
Scottish surgeon