MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2015: It was announced that China was ending its one-child policy; beginning in 2016, couples could have two children. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about China.]

1933: American artist George Luks—one of a group of American painters popularly known as the Ashcan school because of their realistic treatment of urban scenes—died at age 66. [ Take our ultimate art quiz.]

1897: Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda for the German Third Reich under Adolf Hitler, was born. [ Take our quiz about infamous Nazis.]

1995: Terry Southern, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Dr. Strangelove and Easy Rider, died in New York City. [Take our movie quiz.]

1956: Israel's army attacked Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula in a fight for control of the Suez Canal area. [Test your knowledge of Egyptian history.]

1950: King Gustav V of Sweden, a strong proponent of Swedish neutrality during World War II, died in Stockholm. [Take our quiz about kings and emperors.]