On this day in 1702: The Daily Courant, the first English daily newspaper, was published in London.
On this day in 1998: South Korea said it will compensate women who were enslaved in Japanese army brothels in World War II.
On this day in 2006: Michelle Bachelet, a socialist pediatrician who suffered prison, torture and exile under military dictator Augusto Pinochet, was sworn in as Chile's first female president.
On this day in 2011: A massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan. That was followed by a huge tsunami that damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The quake claimed nearly 16,000 lives, and 3,155 people were still missing one year
later.