Today in History

1871 - The eight-mile MontCenis Tunnel opens in the Alps, linking Savoy with the rest of Italy.

1949 - Fire destroys Noronic, the largest passenger steamer on Great Lakes in Canada, killing more than 130 people.

1961 - The world’s first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh.

1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by Nasa.

1978 - Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Prime

Minister Menachem Begin sign Middle East peace agreement.

1993 - Muslim and Croat army chiefs agree on a ceasefire in south and central Bosnia.

2000 - Television personality Paula Yates is found dead at her London home.

2008 - An assault on the US Embassy in Sana’a, Yemen kills 19 people.

2019 - Taliban suicide attackers killed at least 48 people in Afghanistan.