1915 - Today the British Cabinet recognizes the true nature of the war by deciding to institute compulsory military service, with single men to be conscripted before married ones 1926 - Imperial Airways begins mail and passenger service from England to India 1949 - 20th Century Fox announces it will produce TV programs 1953 - WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, Mississippi (NBC) begins broadcasting 1964 - Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's cantata "The Execution of Stepan Razin" 1984 - Rajiv Gandhi's Congress party wins the general election in India 1994 - American country singer Tammy Wynette admitted to the hospital with bile duct infection 2019 - Jihadist fundamentalist group al-Shabaab sets off a truck bomb in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing at least 84 people and wounding over 150 More Historical Events »