On this day in 1937, Japanese troops took control of Shanghai, China.
On this day in 1967, the first issue of Rolling Stone magazine was published.
On this day in 1989, East Germany opened checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany, leading to the eventual fall of Berlin Wall.
On this day in 1998, a US federal judge ordered 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion dollars to cheated NASDAQ investors. This was the largest civil settlement in United States history.