Today in History

September 10

1921 - The world first controlled-access highway, part of Germany’s autobahn systems, opens near Berlin.

1973 - Two IRA bombs explodes at King’s Cross Station and Euston Station in London.

1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.

1979 - Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani, the spiritual chief of Tehran dies at the age of 68.

1989 - Algerian Prime Minister

Kasdi Merbah steps down under protest.

1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev convenes first human rights conference to be held in Soviet Union.

2001 - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko sweeps the election to another five-year term.

2002 - Switzerland joins the United Nations.

2016 - 15 dead, 70 injured in Bangladesh factory fire.