1969Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France.
1967Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army and is stripped of his boxing title.
1965The U.S. Army and Marines invade the Dominican Republic.
1953French troops evacuate northern Laos.
1947Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia.
1946The Allies indict Tojo on 55 counts of war crimes
1945Benito Mussolini is killed by Italian partisans.
1937Jean Redpath, Scottish folk singer.
1937Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq.
1936Kenneth White, poet and essayist.
1932A yellow fever vaccine for humans is announced.
1930James Baker III, Cabinet secretary for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
1930The first organized night baseball game is played in Independence, Kansas.
1926Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (To Kill a Mockingbird).
1920Azerbaijan joins the Soviet Union.
1919Les Irvin makes the first jump with an Army Air Corps parachute.
1916British declare martial law throughout Ireland.
1912Odette Hallowes, British secret agent.
1910The first night air flight is performed by Claude Grahame-White in England.
1902Johan Borgen, Norwegian novelist.
1902 Revolution breaks out in the Dominican Republic.