On This Day in History

American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California.

The Boeing AH-64 Apache (example pictured), the primary attack helicopter for a number of countries, made its first flight.

Cheers, an American television sitcom, debuted with its pilot episode on NBC.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses in the Internet, was incorporated.

Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah was shot dead in the Gaza Strip; the Israel Defense Forces initially accepted responsibility but retracted it five years later.

The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published controversial editorial cartoons depicting Muhammad, sparking protests across the Islamic world by many who viewed them as Islamophobic and blasphemous.

A 7.6 MW earthquake struck off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 1,115 and impacting an estimated 1.2 million people.

President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru, resulting in a constitutional crisis.