1988 A poison gas attack kills 5000 civilians in the Kurdish town of Halabjah

The war crime was in all likelihood executed on the orders of Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein.

1988 In Northern Ireland, an Ulster loyalist kills 3 people at a Provisional IRA funeral

Michael Stone was later convicted of the Milltown Cemetary attack, which was filmed by news crews.

1968 U.S. troops massacre hundreds of unarmed civilians in Vietnam

The 504 victims of the My Lai Massacre included many children and infants.

1960 Alfred Hitchcock’s movie Psycho is premiered

The film starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh is an all-time classic of the suspense movie genre.

1926 Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket

The idea for this revolutionary rocket engine first appeared in a book by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.