Today In History
1903: Singer Enrico Caruso made his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, appearing in “Rigoletto.”
1971: The People’s Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council.
1980: Some 4,800 people were killed by a series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy.
1996: a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the waves off Comoros Islands, killing 125 of the 175 people on board.