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The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom (1967)
In Seattle, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies (1999)
President B. Hussein Obama and the disgraced ex-President Bill Clinton meet Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (2009)
President B. Hussein Obama holds a rare confab with Congressional leaders dubbed the "Slurpee Summit" (2010)
b: Shirley Chisholm (1924), Abbie Hoffman (1936); d: Oscar Wilde (1900), Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1930)
North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea (1950)
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy (1963)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation (1967)
NorK agents bomb Korean Air Flight 858 over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155 (1987)
The new Croatian Communist Party (KPH) is founded in Vukovar (2005)
President B. Hussein Obama floats a phony two-year pay freeze for federal employees (2010)
President B. Hussein Obama lunches at the White House with the vanquished liberal GOP opponent Mitt Romney (2012)
b: Artur Phleps (1881), Edward Aveling (1849), Stanley Ann Dunham (1942), Rahm Emanuel (1959); d: Stephen Solarz (2010)
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy (1943)
In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power (1989)
Islamic terrorists associated with al-Qaeda blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya and fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air-missiles (2002)
President B. Hussein Obama hosts a White House summit for leaders of the European Union to promote the European sovereign debt crisis (2011)
b: Friedrich Engels (1820), Ernst Röhm (1887), William McFetridge (1893), Vladimir Ivashko (1932), Gary Hart (1936); d: Enrico Fermi (1954), Richard Wright (1960), Jerry Rubin (1994)
Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury (1954)
The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000 (1965)
The leftwing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the nation's first elected female Prime Minister (1999)
President B. Hussein Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico (2012)
b: Alexander Dubček (1921), Gail Sheehy (1937), Jimi Hendrix (1942); d: Baby Face Nelson (1934), Harvey Milk (1978), George Moscone (1978)
Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years (1922)
In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brinks Mat vault at Heathrow Airport (1983)
The so-called Mumbai Attacks by the Pakistan-sponsored Islamic jihadi terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba begin, killing 164 people and wounding at least 308 in four days (2008)
President B. Hussein Obama receives twelve stitches at the White House Medical Unit after being struck in the lip by Reynaldo Decerega's elbow during a game of basketball at Fort McNair (2010)
b: John Harvard (1607), Georgi Plekhanov (1857); d: Ernest Belfort Bax (1926)
Evolution Day
Alfred Nobel patents dynamite (1867)
In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, thus agreeing to consult on what measures to take "to safeguard their common interests" in case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation (1936)
The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios (1947)
The People's Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river border to fight United Nations forces (1950)
b: Andrew Carnegie (1835), Carrie Nation (1846); d: Upton Sinclair (1968), Harold Washington (1987)