1 / 61957 - The Soviet Union became the first nation in space, launching the Sputnik-I satellite into orbit 500 miles above the Earth. 1958 - The first transoceanic passenger jet service was inaugurated between New York and London by the British Overseas Airways Corporation. (Representative Image | text: Reuters)
2 / 61993 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin crushed a hardline communist rebellion. (Image: AP| text: Reuters)
3 / 62002 - Nepal's King Gyanendra dismissed prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and took over the government. (Image: AP| text: Reuters)
4 / 62003 - A Palestinian suicide bomber killed 23 people in a popular restaurant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. (Image & text: Reuters)
5 / 62004 - US scientists Frank Wilczek, David Gross and David Politzer won the Nobel physics prize for explaining how the basic building blocks of nature, quarks, interact. (Image: AP| text: Reuters)
6 / 62005 - Turkey opened membership negotiations with the European Union, 42 years after first being given the prospect of membership in the wealthy bloc. (Image: AP| text: Reuters)
