PHOTO CREDITS- WIKIPEDIA/INTERNET ARCHIVE

1998 India executes a series of nuclear weapons test.

1996 ValuJet flight 592 crashes into the Florida Everglades shortly after takeoff

1985 56 football fans die in a stadium fire

1981  The musical Cats is premiered

1967 The Siege of Khe Sanh ends with the base is still in American hands.

1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires.

1933 Louis Farrakhan, American religious leader.

1930 Stanley Elkin, author (George Mills).

1918 Richard Feynman, theoretical physicist.

1912 Phil Silvers, comedian and actor.

1904 Salvador Dali, surrealist painter.