11 Things That Happened This Day In History

1. 1922 - Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister and dictator of Italy

2. 1926 - Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis after his appendix ruptures

3. 1941 - The Mount Rushmore sculpture is completed

4. 1942 - The Nazi Luftwaffe launches the heaviest single daylight bombing attack since the Battle of Britain on the Cathedral City of Canterbury

5. 1955 - Princess Margaret calls off her plans to marry divorced Group Captain Peter Townsend

6. 1961 - Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin's Tomb as part of the process of de-Stalinization in The Soviet Union

7. 1975 - Queen releases Bohemian Rhapsody, which becomes their biggest seller

8. 1984 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is shot dead by two assassins believed to be her own bodyguards

9. 1984 - Nightmare On Elm Street premiers

10. 1997 - A Boston jury finds Louise Woodward, a British au pair, guilty of second degree murder for killing the baby in her care

11. 1999 – EgyptAir Flight 990 traveling from New York City to Cairo crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, killing all 217 on-board

Source: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com, thepeopleshistory

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