1993 CERN announces that World Wide Web protocols will remain free
1993Tennis ace Monica Seles is stabbed by an obsessed fan
1980Terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London.
1975North Vietnamese troops enter the Independence Palace of South Vietnam in Saigon ending the Vietnam War.
1973President Richard Nixon announces the resignation of Harry Robbins Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and other top aides.
1972The North Vietnamese launch an invasion of the South.
1970U.S. troops invade Cambodia to disrupt North Vietnamese Army base areas.
1968U.S. Marines attack a division of North Vietnamese troops in the village of Dai Do.
1954Jane Campion, New Zealand film director (The Piano, A Portrait of a Lady).
1945Annie Dillard, writer (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek).
1945Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker. Karl Donitz becomes his successor.
1943The British submarine HMS Seraph drops ‘the man who never was,’ a dead man the British planted with false invasion plans, into the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain.
1933Willie Nelson, country singer.
1931The George Washington Bridge, linking New York City and New Jersey, opens.
1930The Soviet Union proposes a military alliance with France and Great Britain.
1916Germany and its World War I allies become the first countries to use daylight saving time (DST)