1992
Bill Clinton was elected 42nd President of the USA
1979
Militant Iranian students stormed the US Embassy in Teheran, taking 90 staff and US marines hostage. Their actions were condoned by Ayatollah Khomeini, who denounced the USA as the great Satan
1948
American-born British poet and dramatist T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
United States
1918
Death of Wilfred Owen, British poet and soldier .
1908
Birth of Joseph Rotblat, Polish physicist, Nobel Prize winner .
Poland