Today in History

1946 - The first all-electronic computer is introduced at the University of Pennsylvania.

1960 - Ayoub Khan is elected President of Pakistan.

1981 - 48 people killed in Dublin nightclub fire.

1990 - Indian Airlines passenger jet crashes on landing at Bangalore airport, killing 91 people.

2002 - The state of Bahrain is declared the Kingdom of Bahrain. 2007 - Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov is sworn in as Turkmenistan’s new president.

2012 - A massive fire sweeps through an overcrowded prison in Comayagua, Honduras, killing more than 350 inmates.

2017 - Half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is assassinated in Malaysia.

2021 - Palestinian poet Mourid

Barghouti dies at the age of 76.