On this day in 1911, the New York Public Library was dedicated.
On this day in 1992, Italy's most prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three body guards were killed by the Corleonesi clan with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily.
On this day in 2012, Adam Lambert became the first openly gay artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album Charts, with his album Trespassing.
On this day in 2014, seven people, including the perpetrator, were killed and another 14 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.