A cross-channel ferry left Zeebrugge, Belgium, with its bow doors open it capsized suddenly outside the harbour, killing over 180 passengers 

VALUESentina Tereshkova, Soviet astronaut, is born 

Clarence Birdseye's first frozen foods went on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts, US 

Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands 

Census Bureau forms 

Gottlieb Daimler, German motor engineer who invented the motorcycle, dies 

Aspirin was patented by chemist Felix Hoffman