PHOTO CREDITS- WIKIPEDIA/INTERNET ARCHIVE

2008 A massive earthquake rocks China

1998 Violent clashes follow the killing of four protesters in Jakarta, Indonesia

1994 The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict end

1982 A Spanish priest attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II

1975 The U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez is seized by Cambodian forces.

1969 Viet Cong sappers try unsuccessfully to overrun Landing Zone Snoopy in Vietnam.

1949 The Berlin Blockade ends.

1943 Axis forces in North Africa surrender.

1942 The Soviet Army launches its first major offensive of the war, taking Kharkov in the eastern Ukraine.

1940 The Nazi conquest of France begins with the crossing Musee River.

1936 Frank Stella, painter.

1936 Tom Snyder, newscaster and television host. 

1935 Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio by “Bill W.,” a stockbroker, and “Dr. Bob S.,” a heart surgeon.

1933 Andrei Andreyevich Voznesensky, Russian poet.

1932 The body of Charles Lindbergh’s baby is found.

1926 The Airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.

1925 Yogi Berra (Lawrence Peter Berra), baseball player and coach.

1921 Farley Mowat, Canadian nature writer (Never Cry Wolf).

1915 Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics.

1907 Katherine Hepburn, actress (The Philadelphia Story, The African Queen).