1972 -- A Soviet Ilyushin-62 crashed near Moscow Airport, killing all 176 on board in what at the time was the worst disaster in civilian aviation history.

1977 -- A Lufthansa airliner flying from Majorca was hijacked over the Mediterranean by four Palestinians and flown to Mogadishu, Somalia. The pilot was killed and German commandos successfully stormed the plane on October 17.

1988 -- The shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, was shown by carbon-dating tests to date from the Middle Ages.

1990 -- The first Russian Orthodox service for more than 70 years was held in St. Basil's Cathedral next to the Kremlin in Moscow.

1995 -- Joseph Rotblat, a nuclear physicist who devoted his life to trying to ban the bomb he helped create, won the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize.