1942-First deportation train leaves Paris France for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
1942-General MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia
1948-Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed
1970-Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
1975-Portugal military coup under General Spinola fails
1985-Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
1990-Lithuania declares it's Independence
1991-Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1
1995-Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in U.S.
1997-Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II
1997-San Francisco Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch