Today in History

Slobodan Milosevic, president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, resigns in the wake of mass protest demonstrations.

Brazil’s Constituent Assembly authorizes the nation’s new constitution.

Britain’s The Sunday Times newspaper publishes details of Israel’s secret nuclear weapons development program.

Members of the Quebec Liberation Front (QLF) kidnap British Trade Commissioner James Cross in Montreal, resulting in the October Crisis and Canada’s first peacetime use of the War Measures Act.

Monty Python’s Flying Circus debuts on BBC One.

Police attack civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland; the event is considered to be the beginning of "The Troubles."

A sodium cooling system malfunction causes a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration breeder reactor near Detroit. Radiation is contained.

Mario Lemieux, hockey player, led Pittsburgh Penguins to consecutive Stanley Cups (1991-92).

Laura Davies, England’s top professional female golfer.

The first James Bond film, Dr. No starring Sean Connery, debuts.

Maya Lin, American architect who designed the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Bernie Mac, comedian, actor; member of the Original Kings of Comedy.

Clive Barker, author, director (Hellraiser, Candyman).