10 years ago today, the album Rock or Bust by the Hard Rock band AC/DC from Australia was released.

30 years ago today (and yesterday), Norway voted to reject membership of the European Union in a referendum, for the second time in its history.

70 years ago today, Enrico Fermi, an Italian and naturalized American physicist, died. He is renowned for being the creator of the world's first artificial nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1.

10 years ago today, Sabah, a Lebanese singer and actress, died.

85 years ago today, Tina Turner, a singer, songwriter, and actress, was born.

100 years ago today, the first constitution of the Mongolian People's Republic was passed by the First National Great Hural.

100 years ago today, Paul Desmond, an American jazz alto saxophonist, was born.

140 years ago today, Hermann Kolbe, a German chemist and academic, died. He was a major contributor to the birth of modern organic chemistry.

240 years ago today, Zachary Taylor, an American military officer and politician, was born. He was the 12th president of the United States, serving from 1849 until his death in 1850.

150 years ago today, Joseph Glidden received the patent for his barbed wire design.

50 years ago today, Lucy was discovered. It is a collection of pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis.

70 years ago today, Bruce Hornsby, a Piano Rock / Soft Rock artist, was born.

380 years ago today, in opposition to licensing and censorship during the English Civil War, John Milton's Areopagitica was published, arguing for the right to free expression.

20 years ago today, World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer online role-playing (MMORPG) video game produced by Blizzard Entertainment, was released in AU and NA.

90 years ago today, Rita Sakellariou, a Greek laika singer, was born.

450 years ago today, Juan Fernández, a Spanish explorer, discovered an archipelago that now bears his name off the coast of Chile.

75 years ago today, the Petersberg Agreement was signed. It extended the rights of the government of West Germany vis-a-vis the occupying forces of the United Kingdom, France, and the United States.

50 years ago today, Frank Martin, a Swiss composer, died. He spent much of his life in the Netherlands.

130 years ago today, after capturing the Chinese city of Port Arthur, the Japanese army began a massacre of the city's soldiers and civilians.

330 years ago today, Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian, was born.