On this day in 1970, the Soviet lunar probe Lunokhod 1 was launched.
On this day in 1989, German citizens began to bring the Berlin Wall down.
On this day in 1995 in Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with ten others, were hanged by government forces.
On this day in 2007, ten to forty thousand people marched in Malaysia to demand the King for electoral reform.