On this day in 1835, Andrew Carnegie was born in Scotland. Carnegie was an American industrialist and philanthropist who donated over US$129.5 million to charitable causes in the United Kingdom and the United States.
On this day in 1908, the Christian Science Monitor newspaper published its first issue in Boston.
On this day in 1911, Chinese revolutionaries bombed Nanking.
On this day in 1913, police opened fire on demonstrators protesting against the imprisonment of Mahatma Gandhi, killing two people and wounding 20 others in Natal.
On this 2008, a referendum on Greenland's greater autonomy was passed with the support of 75 percent of voters, paving the way for the independence of the former Danish colony.