MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2013: Scientists at the Smithsonian announced the discovery of the olinguito, “the first carnivore species to be discovered in the American continents in 35 years”; the small arboreal animals live in the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador. [Take our animals quiz.]

1998: A car bomb exploded in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killing 29 people and leaving more than 200 injured; the Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA), an IRA splinter group, claimed responsibility for the bombing, which was the deadliest attack in Northern Ireland since the eruption of violence there in the late 1960s.

1979: After a troubled production, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now was released in theatres, and it became a film classic, noted for performances by Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall, whose character famously says that he loves “the smell of napalm in the morning.” [ Sort fact from fiction in our film quiz.]

1971: Bahrain proclaimed independence from the United Kingdom. [Test your knowledge of the Middle East.]

1960: The Republic of the Congo gained independence from France. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about Africa.]

1948: Syngman Rhee announced the establishment of the Republic of Korea (South Korea). [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about Korea.]