Bosnian Genocide / Orange Is the New Black

-1405

Chinese fleet commander Zheng He sets sail for the Spice Islands on his first major expedition, leading 208 vessels, including 62 treasure ships with 27,800 sailors.

-1533

Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII.

-1818

English poet John Keats writes "In the Cottage Where Burns is Born", "Lines Written in the Highlands", and "Gadfly".

-1877

Kate Edger becomes New Zealand’s first woman graduate and the first woman in the British Empire to earn a Bachelor of Arts.

-1897

Salomon August Andrée and crew leaves Spitsbergen in northern Norway by balloon headed for the North Pole.

-1944

Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States.

-1995

Bosnian Serbs massacre more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys after they overrun the UN 'safe area' of Srebrenica on the directive of Radovan Karadžić.

Bosnian Serb forces committed atrocious crimes against Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) and Croatian civilians with the backing of the Yugoslav army, resulting in the death of about 100,000 people (80% of them Bosniaks) by 1995.

-2013

Netflix premieres Orange Is the New Black, starring Taylor Schilling. It's the first comedy and drama show nominated for an Emmy.