1502 - Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to New World
1671 - Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels
1901 - Australia opens its 1st parliament in Melbourne
1911 - Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland
1925 - Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid
1927 - Australian Parliament 1st convenes in new capital, Canberra
1945 - Victory celebration at Red Square
1960 - US send U-2 over USSR
1960 - US is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
1964 - Khrushchev visits Egypt
1974 - House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
1979 - US & USSR sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons
1988 - Australia's new parliament house is opened by Queen Elizabeth II
1995 - Kinshasa, Zaire under quarantine after an outbreak of Ebola virus
1997 - 1st US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam
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