Al-Shabaab militants launched a terrorist attack on the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi, which ended three days later and left more than 65 people dead, including Ghanian poet and novelist Kofi Awoonor. 2013.
The American band Green Day released its iconic American Idiot, which later won a Grammy Award for best rock album and was adapted into a rock opera. 2004.
Belize gained its independence from the United Kingdom. 1981.
While experimenting with gallic acid, a chemical he was informed would increase the sensitivity of his prepared paper, William Henry Fox Talbot discovered that the acid can be used to develop a latent image on paper, leading to a revolution in photography. 1840.
