Today in History

1793 - Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded during the French Revolution.

1945 - The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations is founded.

1951 - Pakistan’s first PM Liaquat Ali Khan is assassinated in Rawalpindi.

1964 - Harold Wilson becomes British PM for the first time.

1991 - A man crashes a pickup truck into a restaurant in Killeen, Texas, and shoots patrons, killing 23 people before taking his own life.

1996 - Fans try to squeeze into a World Cup qualifying soccer match in Guatemala City, killing 78 people in the crush.

2001 - The new headquarters for the Sharjah Scouts Commission is inaugurated.

2006 - Tamil rebels in

Sri Lanka ram a truck packed with explosives into a convoy of military buses, killing at least 93 sailors.