On this day in 1959, the State Council of the People's Republic of China dissolved the Government of Tibet.
On this day in 1969, Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis made a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece.
On this day in 1979, a coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania led to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
And on this day in 2006, at least one million union members, students, and unemployed took to the streets in France to protest the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.