OTD:

In 476 CE, Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman emperor, was deposed by Odoacer in Ravenna, marking the end of the Western Roman Empire and the start of the Middle Ages in Europe.

In 1888, in London, the body of Annie Chapman, the second victim of Jack the Ripper, was found in Whitechapel, intensifying public panic and highlighting poor social conditions in the East End.

In 1882, Thomas Edison switched on the world’s first commercial electric power plant in New York City, marking the beginning of the electric age and revolutionizing modern life.

In 1957, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus used the National Guard to block nine African American students from entering Little Rock Central High School, escalating a major civil rights crisis.

In 1960, American sprinter Wilma Rudolph became the first woman to win three gold medals in track and field at a single Olympic Games, overcoming polio and becoming a global sports icon.

In 1970, a massive landslide triggered by the Ancash earthquake in Peru buried the town of Yungay, killing over 20,000 people in one of South America's deadliest disasters.

In 1972, the Munich Massacre occurred during the Olympics, where Palestinian terrorists took 11 Israeli athletes hostage, ending in the deaths of all hostages and several others.

In 1995, the Fourth World Conference on Women convened in New York City, leading to the adoption of the Beijing Declaration, a landmark document advocating for global gender equality.

In 2012, NASA's Voyager 1 became the first human-made object to enter interstellar space, providing groundbreaking data from beyond our solar system.