On this day in 1926, restoration of Colonial Williamsburg, a recreation of a Colonial American city in the Historic Triangleon the Virginia Peninsula, US, began.
On this day in 1978, San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by supervisor Dan White.
On this day in 1999, the Labor Party defeated the governing National Party in the New Zealand general election, making Labor's Helen Clark the first woman to win the office of Prime Minister at an election.