Brandon Routh, the star from "Superman Returns," married actress Courtney Ford in 2007 at the gorgeous El Capitan Ranch in Santa Barbara, California.

Ted Bundy, an American serial killer during the 1970s, was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1946.

Howard Carter, an English archaeologist, unlocks Tutankhamun's nearly undamaged tomb in Egypt in 1922.

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes was born on Nov 26 in 1983

Gaston Chevrolet, a French-born American racing car racer and automobile pioneer, was born in 1920. Diego Maradona, an Argentine soccer striker, died of a heart attack at the age of 60.

In 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, the American murderer of JFK two days previously, was shot dead two days later by nightclub owner Jack Ruby live on television at 24.

Arjun Rampal, an Indian actor, was born in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India in 1972.

Arundhati Roy, an Indian activist and writer, was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, in 1961.

Verghese Kurien, an Indian engineer, was born in Calicut, India, in 1921.

In 1926, Sri Aurobindo retires to a life of solitude, leaving Mirra Alfassa in charge of his disciples (founding of Sri Aurobindo ashram)

Charles Darwin, an English naturalist, publishes "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, fundamentally transforming the understanding of evolution and establishing the groundwork for evolutionary biology.

Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, in 2008: Ten coordinated strikes by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure over 250 people in Mumbai, India.

Karl Benz, German inventor, engine designer, and Mercedes-Benz automotive maker, was born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, in 1844.

1991 Freddie Mercury, originally Farrokh Bulsara, is a British singer-songwriter and member of the band Queen who died of AIDS at the age of 45.

Lionel Messi becomes the all-time leading scorer in the UEFA Champions League in 2014.