🕰️ On This Day in History
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2008 — A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.
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1992 — The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
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1988 — Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
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1987 — The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.
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1984 — In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and...
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