1913: Ford Motor Company institutes the world’s first moving assembly line for the Model T Ford

1934: Leningrad mayor Sergei Kirov is assassinated, Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38

1955: Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama

1988: Benazir Bhutto is named Prime Minister of Pakistan, the first female leader of a Muslim country

1990: British and French workers meet in the middle of the Channel Tunnel 40 meters under the English Channel, achieving a major engineering feat and the long-held dream of linking Britain to Europe

Source: Onthisday.com