MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2018: American comic book writer Stan Lee—who helped create such iconic characters and teams as the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, the Avengers, and the X-Men for Marvel Comics —died at age 95. [Sort fact from fiction in our comic books quiz.]

2011: As Italy struggled amid the euro-zone debt crisis, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi submitted his letter of resignation; four days later he was succeeded by Mario Monti. [ Take our quiz about notable prime ministers.]

1994: Sprinter Wilma Rudolph , who overcame crippling childhood illnesses to become the first American woman to win three track-and-field gold medals in a single Olympics, died in Tennessee. [Take our quiz about track and field.]

1980: The U.S. space probe Voyager 1 reached the planet Saturn. [Read our list of 10 places to visit in the solar system.]

1971: Arches National Park—a desert area of sandstone formations in eastern Utah—was established; the region had been designated a national monument in 1929. [ Discover seven wonders of America.]

1970: The Bhola cyclone struck East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing hundreds of thousands of people in the densely populated Ganges- Brahmaputra delta; it was perhaps the deadliest tropical cyclone in recorded history and one of the greatest natural disasters. [Take our quiz about disasters of historic proportions.]