2014 Event The Islamic State captures the Iraqi town of Sinjar, home to the country's Yazidi religious minority population; residents fled in advance of the extremists, who have demanded that non-Muslim residents convert to Islam or face death 2013 Event Russia's parliament passes bills banning homosexual 'propaganda'; police near the Duma take gays into custody after they anti-gay extremists hit them with eggs 1987 Event 1st of 3 massacres by Sikh extremists takes place in India 1985 Death Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists 1985 Event Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847 1983 Event 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France 1977 Event Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11 1970 Birthday Gabrielle Reece, Trinidad, volleyball star/model, Extremists 1948 Death Mahatma Ghandi, murdered by Hindu extremists in India
