2007: Russian politician Boris Yeltsin—who became in 1991 the first popularly elected leader in his country's history and guided Russia through a stormy decade of political and economic retrenching until his resignation on the eve of 2000—died in Moscow. [Sort fact from fiction in our Russia quiz.]
2005: The first video—which was of YouTube cofounder Jawed Karim's visit to the San Diego Zoo—was uploaded on the YouTube Web site; approximately one year later the site had some 100 million videos. [ Take our computers and technology quiz.]
1985: The Coca-Cola Company introduced New Coke, a reformulated soft drink meant to replace its flagship beverage; due to public outrage, however, the previous version of Coke was brought back as "Coca-Cola Classic" less than three months later.
1936: American singer-songwriter Roy Orbison, known for his soaring voice and for his carefully crafted ballads of loneliness and heartache, was born in Vernon, Texas. [Test your knowledge of songwriters.]
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