1640-Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule
1944-Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra premieres
1944-Prokofjev's 8th Piano Sonata premieres
1959-The first color photograph of Earth received from outer space
1964-Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks to J. Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign
1973-Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2 million in a year
1976-Angola admitted to U.N.
1978-President Carter more than doubles national park system size
1984-France conducts nuclear test
1986-Musee d'Orsay opens in Paris
1988-Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Muslim country (Pakistan)
1989-East Germany drops the communist monopoly from its constitution
1989-USSR President Mikhail S. Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican
1990-Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
1990-Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia hold their 1st joint meeting
1991-Pediatric AIDS Awareness Week declared in U.S.
1991-Ukranian people vote for independence
1991-U.S. 75th manned space mission, "STS 44" Atlantis 10, lands
1991-Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as President of Kazakhstan
1994-Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere announce their separation
1994-Ernesto Zedillo inaugurated as president of Mexico
1997-Westinghouse formally changes its name to CBS