History

1840 World's first adhesive postage stamp, the "Penny Black", is first used in Great Britain

1937 The hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg caught fire and crashed while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey; 35 of the 97 people on board were killed along with a crewman on the ground.

1954 Medical student Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile during a track meet in Oxford, England, in 3:59.4.

1994 Nelson Mandela and the ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa's first post apartheid election

2010 A computerized sell order triggered a “flash crash” on Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones industrials to a loss of nearly 1,000 points in less than half an hour.

2020 New York City began shutting down its subway system overnight to allow for additional cleaning and disinfecting of cars and stations. President Donald Trump reversed course on plans to wind down his COVID-19 task force; he said the force would shift its focus toward rebooting the economy and developing a vaccine.