On this day...
1738-Turkish troops occupy Orsova & Ochakov
1927-Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
1933-Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released
1944-Jean-Paul Sartre's "Huis Clos" premieres in Paris France
1951-Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1953-Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections
1961-First black light is sold
1970-USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980-South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
1985-Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
1997-First all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
1997-Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO