Maya Angelou wrote: History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

1809 La Paz, Bolivia declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the Junta Tuitiva.

1918 Tsar Nicholas II and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks, bringing an end to the three-century-old Romanov dynasty.

2005 J.K. Rowling's book "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was released. It was the sixth in the Harry Potter series. The book sold 6.9 million copies on its first day of release.