1985 – Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.

1862 – The USS Planter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Everyone needs a hobby. 

 islander wrote:
Got to have some kompromat to trade for his bowl of soup.

 kurtster wrote:

well that would be appropriate for 'this day in history' right?  

Are you now building dossiers on everyone?

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
You posted this a year ago today.

1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.

1997 – Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player in a classic match format.

868 – A copy of the Diamond Sūtra is published,<2> making it the earliest dated and printed book known.

1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.

1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder.

1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.

1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.

2020 – The COVID-19 recession causes the U.S. unemployment rate to hit 14.9 percent, its worst rate since the Great Depression.

1974 – Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.

1980 – The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.

1970 – The Beatles release their 12th and final studio album Let It Be.

1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.

2000 – Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.