1993
117 nations signed the revised General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in Geneva, Switzerland.
1993
British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds made the ‘Downing Street Declaration’, aimed at achieving lasting peace in Northern Ireland..
1984
Death of Lennard Pearce, British actor (played Grandad in Only Fools and Horses)
1966
Death of Walt Disney, American film and TV producer who pioneered animated cartoon films
1958
Death of Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-Swiss-American theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner.
Switzerland
1938
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial took place in Washington, D.C..
United States
1907
Richard Crossman born 1907 (died 1974). Labour politician known for his sometimes lively political diaries.
1859
Birth of L.L. Zamenhof, Polish doctor, inventor of the Esperanto language
Poland