2005
A referendum in the Netherlands rejects ratification of the European Constitution.
2001
Crown Prince Dipendra, heir to the throne of Nepal, goes on a killing rampage, taking the lives of his parents the King and Queen of Nepal, amongst others, before taking his own life.
2001
In Israel, a Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 people in a night club in Tel Aviv.
1993
Serb forces launch an artillery barrage on a make-shift football match in Bosnia killing eleven people.
1990
America and the Soviet Union sign an agreement to end production of chemical weapons and begin the destruction of their reserves of them.
1979
Exclusive white rule of Rhodesia comes to an end as the country is renamed Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.
1977
Jewish dissident and human rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky is charged with treason by the Soviet authorities.
1970
The British Prime Minister Harold Wilson is hit by an egg thrown by a demonstrator.
1968: Helen Keller dies
American educator Helen Keller dies at the age of 87. In infancy, scarlet fever left her blind, deaf, and mute. Her parents appealed to the inventor Alexander Graham Bell for help, and he referred them to a semi-blind teacher, Anne Sullivan, who taught Helen to communicate by touch. She later learned how to read using the Braille system and, in one month in 1890, how to speak. She graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College and gained international recognition as a writer, teacher, and lecturer. Her lecture tours took her several times around the world, and she did much to remove the stigmas and ignorance surrounding sight and hearing disorders, which historically had resulted in the committal of the blind and deaf in asylums.
1967
The Beatles release the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in Britain.
1958
In France, Charles de Gaulle is called out of retirement to head a new emergency government to deal with the military and civilian revolt in Algeria.
1941
The Second World War: Germany takes control of the Greek Island Crete.
1922
In Northern Ireland, the Royal Ulster Constabulary is established.
1796
Tennessee becomes the 16th state of the United States of America.
1792
Kentucky becomes the 15th state of the United States of America.
193 AD
Roman Emperor Marcus Severus Didius Julianus is ousted and killed by his successor Septimius Severus.
BORN in this day
2000
My dearest daughter Princess Anamaria Ioana
1968
Australian actor and singer Jason Donovan.
1944
British actor Robert Powell.
1937
Writer Colleen McCullough.
1935
English architect Sir Norman Foster.
1926
American actress Marilyn Monroe - born Norma Jean Mortenson.
1907
British aeronautical engineer Sir Frank Whittle
1878
Poet Laureate John Masefield
1826
German motor engineer Gottlieb Daimler
DIED on this day
1987
Errol Barrow, Prime Minister of Barbados (1961-1976) aged 67.
1985
English actor Richard Greene.
1868
15th US President James Buchanan (1857-1861) aged 77.
1846
Pope Gregory XVI aged 80.
Sursa: thehistorychanel.co.uk
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