1936 – Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie and his family fled Addis Ababa, three days before his capture by the Italians.
1951 – The Shah of Iran signed decrees approving the nationalization of Iran’s oil industry.
1953 – In Jordan, King Hussein was enthroned as the successor of his father, King Talal, who was forced to abdicate due to ill health. In Iraq, King Faisal took power.
1972 – John Edgar Hoover, founder and former director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), died in Washington.
1982 – In the Falklands War, the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano was sunk by the British submarine Conqueror; over 350 people were killed.
1994 – President FW de Klerk recognized Nelson Mandela’s victory in South Africa’s first historic election.
2001 – The world’s first tea party in a hot air balloon.
2003 – A Sicilian appeals court upheld a lower court’s decision that former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti was innocent of charges of complicity with the Mafia.
2006 – Television host and producer Louis Rukeyser, who helped millions of Americans understand the workings of Wall Street with pun-filled stock market commentary delivered weekly for 32 years, died at age 73.
2009 – Jack Kemp, a star football quarterback who became a U.S. congressman, cabinet secretary and Republican vice presidential candidate, died at age 73.
2014 – A landslide in Afghanistan leaves more than 2,500 dead or missing.
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