On this day in 1933, the USS Ranger was launched. It was the first US Navy ship to be designed from the start of construction as an aircraft carrier.
On this day in 1964, North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung called for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.
On this day in 1971, the first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, went online.