A Black September terrorist looks from the balcony of an apartment where Israeli Olympic team members are held hostage.
The Munich massacre on this day in 1972 was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, in which the Palestinian terrorist group Black September took eleven Israeli Olympic team members hostage and killed them along with a West German police officer.
The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior on this day in 1975.
Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died of a heart attack at age 75 on this day in 1982. He was suceeded by Yuri V. Andropov.
Henry M. Stanley, journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone on this day in 1871. Livingston was a missing Scottish missionary in central Africa. Stanley delivered his famous greeting: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
On this day in 1969, "Sesame Street" made its debut on PBS.
A secret service agent thwarts as assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford on this date in 1975. He apparently spotted a loaded .45 caliber semi automatic handgun in the hands of Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme pointed directly at the President when he reached out and wrestled it way from her (below).
Jack Kerouac’s "On the Road" was first published on this day in 1957.
Jack Kerouac (Jean-Louis Kérouac) (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969)
Mother Teresa was known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. A controversial figure during her life and after her death, Teresa was admired by many for her charitable work and was both praised and criticized for her opposition to abortion.