On this day:
2012: The brand-new Sukhoi Superjet 100 plane crashes
1960: The first birth control pill, Enovid, is approved
Born on this day:
1837: Adam Opel, German engineer, founded the Opel Company
1866: Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian social reformer and freedom fighter, born in Kotluk, Bombay Presidency
Gone on this day:
1986: Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer