The Rolling Stones played their first-ever gig at London’s Marquee Club in 1962.

In 1960, the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee was first published by J.B. Lippincott and Co.

2011. South Sudan became the world’s newest nation early Saturday, officially breaking away from Sudan after two civil wars over five decades that cost the lives of at least 2 million people.

Jack Lambert, 1952.

Marc Chagall, born in 1887.

Jan Hus, burned at the stake in 1415 for heresies against the doctrines of the Catholic Church.

1996, Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.

Blessed John of Moscow The Fool for Christ.

Larry David, 1947.

The Tunguska event left 800 square miles of scorched or blown-down trees.

“…the generally agreed upon theory is that on the morning of June 30, 1908, a large space rock, about 120 feet across, entered the atmosphere of Siberia and then detonated in the sky.”