1909-Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, New York NY
1946-U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
1961-JFK provides U.S. military helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
1967-6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed
1973-West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czechoslovakia
1979-Great Britain grants independence to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
1981-U.N. Security Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Secretary-General
1981-Argentine President/General Roberto Viola flees
1983-First visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)
1984-Mauretania military coup under Colonel Maawiya Ould Sid'ahmed Taya
1986-South Africa censors press
1997 -Federal judge orders Microsoft not to bundle IE4 in Windows