United Nations established
The charter for the United Nations—the world’s premier international organization, established at the end of World War II to maintain world peace and friendly relations among nations—entered into force this day in 1945. 1945.
American musician Fats Domino, who was one of the first rock-and-roll stars and who helped define the New Orleans sound, died at age 89. 2017.
African American civil rights activist Rosa Parks—whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man in 1955 helped ignite the American civil rights movement—died at age 92. 2005.
Supersonic passenger service ended as British Airways flew its last Concorde flight; Air France had ceased similar operations in May. 2003.
Salvador Allende‘s election as the first Marxist president of Chile was confirmed. 1970.
Benito Mussolini helped plan the March on Rome, which began on October 28 and resulted in him becoming dictator of Italy. 1922
The Peace of Westphalia ended the Eighty Years’ War between Spain and the Dutch and the German phase of the Thirty Years’ War. 1648.
Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who became the first to observe bacteria and protozoans, was born. 1632.
Drake (born October 24, 1986, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian rap musician who first gained fame as an actor on the acclaimed TV teenage drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation and went on to have a successful and influential music career. His trademark sound, which combines singing and lyrical rapping and juxtaposes braggadocio with raw vulnerability, won him a large following.
