On this day in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, was officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
On this day in 1961, Peter Benenson's article “The Forgotten Prisoners” was published in several internationally read newspapers. This would later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
On this day in 1999, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper was put back on display in Milan, Italy.
And on this day in 2008, Nepal became a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.