On this day, Paul Blobel -- leader of the Aktion 1005 operation to get rid of evidence of Nazi mass murders -- was executed. 

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On this day in 1984, the video game "Tetris" was released. 

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On this day in 1981, the first report on AIDS was published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, before AIDS was identified as a syndrome. 

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On this day in 1932, the goverment junta of Chile began.

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On this day in 1943, the Zoot Suit Riots began in Los Angeles. 

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On this day in 1802, Aboriginal resistance leader Pemulwuy died.

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On this day in 1843, Isabella Baumfree took the name Sojourner Truth. Truth went on to become an abolitionist and advocate for Black and women's rights. 

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On this day in 1669, English naval administrator Samuel Pepys wrote his last diary entry. Learn more about Samuel Pepys in an episode of Stuff You Missed in History Class at https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/samuel-pepys-beyond-the-diary.htm

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On this day in 1953, Nepalese sherpa Tenzing Norgay and climber Edmund Hillary became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the highest mountain above sea level. 

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On this day in 1919, a total solar eclipse experiment helped prove Einstein's recently proposed general theory of relativity. 

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