On this day in 1894, the First Sino-Japanese War began when the Japanese fired upon a Chinese warship.
On this day in 1943, during World War II, Benito Mussolini was forced out of office by his own Italian Grand Council.
On this day in 1978, Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby", was born.
On this day in 1984, Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a space walk.
On this day in 2007, Pratibha Patil was sworn in as India's first female president.
And on this day in 2010, WikiLeaks published classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in US military history.