On this day in 1960, Taiwanese decathlon athlete Yang Chuan-kuang won Taiwan’s first-ever Olympic silver medal.
On this day in 1972, nine Israeli athletes taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group died at the hands of the kidnappers during a failed rescue attempt.
On this day in 1991, the name Saint Petersburg was restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
And on this day in 2007, Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti died at the age of 71. He was one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time.