1995Chechen rebels take 2,000 people hostage in a hospital in Russia.
1989Congressman William Gray, an African American, is elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives.
1985Gunmen hijack a passenger jet over the Middle East.
1982Argentina surrenders to the United Kingdom ending the Falkland Islands War.
1965A military triumvirate takes control in Saigon, South Vietnam.
1954Americans take part in the first nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack.
1951UNIVAC, the first computer built for commercial purposes, is demonstrated in Philadelphia by Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr.
1949The State of Vietnam is formed.
1946Donald Trump, former New York real estate mogul and 45th president of the United States.
1945Burma is liberated by the British.
1944Boeing B-29 bombers conduct their first raid against mainland Japan.
1942The Supreme Court rules that requiring students to salute the American flag is unconstitutional.
1940German forces occupy Paris.
1933Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-American novelist (The Painted Bird, Being There).
1932Representative Edward Eslick dies on the floor of the House of Representatives while pleading for the passage of the bonus bill.
1927Nicaraguan President Porfirio Diaz signs a treaty with the U.S. allowing American intervention in his country.
1925Pierre Salinger, press secretary for John F. Kennedy.
1922President Warren G. Harding becomes the first president to speak on the radio.
1919John William Alcott and Arthur Whitten Brown take off from St. John’s, Newfoundland, for Clifden, Ireland, on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1907Women in Norway win the right to vote.
1906Margaret Bourke-White, American photojournalist.