1839 The Newport Rising. The last significant rebellion in Britain was crushed on this day when police and army units faced thousands of armed peasants and workers supporting democratic reform and attempting to liberate some jailed rebels in Newport, Wales. Firing broke out in which 22 demonstrators were killed and 50 wounded.
1922 British archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s (King Tut’s) tomb.
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis. A mob of students attacks the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 90 hostages and starting a major diplomatic standoff that lasted until early 1981.
1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by a Jewish extremist who opposed Rabin’s peace proposals.