1998
Iraq announced that it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
1984
Indira Gandhi assassinated
1984
Death of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards. Succeeded by her son Rajiv Gandhi
1968
US President Lyndon Johnson ordered American troops to cease their bombing of North Vietnam.
1956
Britain and France invade Suez
1941
Sculptures (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln) on Mount Rushmore completed – started in 1927
1926
Death of Harry Houdini
1659
Death of John Bradshaw, English judge who presided over the trial and execution of Charles I. (His body was hanged and beheaded in 1660)
Great Britain
1517
Martin Luther fixes his 95 theses on church door at Wittenburg – regarded as start of the Reformation
Switzerland