Today fact

1.In 2013,Several small bombs explode outside a provincial office of the Communist Party of China.

2.In 2012,

Barack Obama is reelected President of the United States; Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.

3.In 2004,

An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 150.

4.In 2002,

Jia]ng Lijun is detained by Chinese police for signing the Open Letter to the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. He is later formally arrested and convicted for “inciting subversion of the state power”.

5.In 1999,

Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.

6.In 1998,

The Electric Tilt Train enters service in Queensland, Australia and becomes one of the fastest trains in the country and the fastest narrow gauge train in service.

7.In 1995,

Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore, which had been without an NFL team since 1983, when the Baltimore Colts moved to Indianapolis.

8.In 1986,

Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 21⁄2 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.

9.In 1985,

In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.

10.In 1984,

Ronald Reagan is reelected President of the United States.