2004: Unrest in Kosovo: More than 22 are killed and 200 wounded. Thirty-five Serbian Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Serbia are destroyed.
1985: Serial killerRichard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
1979: The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
1973: The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family, which came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
1970: My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
1968: As a result of nerve gas testing in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead.
1966: Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
1963: Mount Agung erupted on Bali killing more than 1,100 people.
1960: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
1824: The Malay archipelago splits into two domains after the Anglo-Dutch Treaty is signed in London. As a result, the Malay Peninsula is dominated by the British, while Sumatra and Java and surrounding areas are dominated by the Dutch.
1805: The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
1780: American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".