1925 - Tri-State Tornado: Tornadoes break out across the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people.
1944 - The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.
1953 - An earthquake hits western Turkey killing 250.
1965 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
1971 - In Peru a landslide crashes into Lake Yanahuani killing 200 at the mining camp of Chungar.
1980 - in Russia, 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
1989 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Giza.
