1936 – Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Georgia become union Republics of the Soviet Union.
1967 – Dak Son Massacre in Vietnam.
1996 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman ever to hold the post of U.S. Secretary of State.
2005 – Earthquake hits the Lake Tanganyika area of central Africa.
1901 – American motion-picture and television producer, and the creator of Disneyland, Walt Disney was born.
2008 – Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia passes away.
2012 – Greek Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim passes away.