History of Day: Daily Historical Events, Births, Deaths and Holidays

2013: Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It would be opened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.

2012: 75 people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.

2012: Seventy-five people die in a landslide triggered by two earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried.

2010: The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa.

2008: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at a Canadian Indian residential school.

2008: The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit.

2007: Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people.

2004: Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.

2002: Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.

2001: Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

1998: Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.

1987: Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.

1981: A magnitude 6.9 earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.

1978: Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.

1971: The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.

1970: After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army general officers, becoming the first women to do so.