1812 – 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
1907 – Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator
1930 – WIS-AM (now WOMG) in Columbia SC begins radio transmissions
1943 – British 8th army marches into Tripoli
1960 – Bathosphere “Trieste”, crewed by Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh, reaches bottom of Pacific (10,900 m)
1971 – UCLA loses to Notre Dame, UCLA then wins next 88 games in a row
1987 – Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion)
1991 – Bagogwe Massacre of Tutsi in and around Ruhengeri, Northern Rwanda
2001 – The Chinese Communist Party stages a self-immolation in Tiananmen Square to frame Falun Gong and escalate the persecution.
2012 – European Union agrees to embargo Iranian oil in protest against Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons program