On this day in 1980, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back was released in theaters.
On this day in 1981, Irish Republican hunger strikers Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara died on hunger strike in Maze prison.
On this day in 1998, President Suharto of Indonesia resigned following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule
On this day in 2001, the French Taubira law was enacted, officially recognizing the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
On this day in 2014, knife attack on a Taipei Metro train left four people dead and almost two dozen others injured.