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
1986-Musée d'Orsay opens in Paris
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 m under the English Channel, marking a major engineering achievement