In 1996 US peacekeeping troops enter northern Bosnia to keep the peace between Bosnian Serbs and Muslims. This deployment of some 2,000 troops is the first American military operation in Europe since WWII and is in response to the signing of the Dayton Accord signed in December 1995.
In 1979 the trial of bassist for the rolling stones, Sid Vicious begins. He was arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen who was stabbed in the abdomen at a hotel in New York, USA. Sid vicious (born John Simon Ritchie) died from a heroin overdose one month later on the 2nd of February 1979, at the age of 21, before the trial was over.
In 1979 Marina 9 begins mapping the surface of Mars.
In 1971 sixty-six people die at Scotland’s worst football disaster in history. The victims were spectators that became crushed at the end of a football match between Old Firm rivals Celtic and Rangers at the Ibrox Park stadium in Glasgow. The initial cause for the crush was thought be due to hundreds of Rangers fans leaving the match early after what seemed to be a defeat by Celtic. But in injury time Colin Stein scored an equalising goal causing a raw from the Rangers fans. At this point many of the departing fans turned to return to the remaining match meeting other leaving Rangers supporters causing the crush. A later enquiry suggested, that this was not the case and the problem was the sheer volume of traffic, and once some fans began to fall on the stairwell it was impossible to stop.
In 1969 Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch successfully bought his first Fleet Street paper, The News of the World.
In1959 the Russian spacecraft Luna 1 made the first ‘flyby’ of the Moon
In 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Was born in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A
In 1871 King Amadeus I of Spain is inaugurated.
