1910 – Dr. Hawley Crippen, the first criminal to be caught by radio, was hanged in London for killing his wife.

1961 -- The Dominican Republic changed the name of its capital from Ciudad Trujillo to Santo Domingo.

1976 -- Andre Malraux died. He was a French writer, adventurer, orator and revolutionary who became General Charles de Gaulle's long-serving culture minister. His best-known works include La Condition Humaine (Man's Estate) and L'Espoir (Days of Hope).

1979 -- In Dublin, Thomas McMahon was sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of Earl Mountbatten, cousin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth.

1979 -- Merle Oberon, Australian-born film actress, died. In a film career spanning 40 years, she starred in The Private Life of Henry VIII and Wuthering Heights.

1980 -- An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale struck Eboli in southern Italy, killing 2,735 people and injuring at least 7,500.

1983 -- The Soviet Union walked out of arms limitation talks in Geneva in protest at the deployment of U.S. cruise missiles in Europe.

1994 -- At least 111 people, mostly women and children, were killed in a stampede after Indian police baton-charged tribal protesters in the western city of Nagpur.

1995 -- Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic forced Bosnian Serb hardliners to accept a U.S.-sponsored peace deal, the key to ending 3-1/2 years of UN sanctions on rump Yugoslavia.

1995 -- Louis Malle, French New Wave film director, died. Best known for the films Zazie dans le Metro, Au Revoir les Enfants and Atlantic City.

1996 -- A hijacked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 with 163 passengers and 12 crew crashed into the sea off the Comoro Islands after apparently running out of fuel; 125 people died.

2001 -- The UN War Crimes Tribunal charged Slobodan Milosevic with genocide in Bosnia in its third and gravest indictment against the former Yugoslav leader. THOUGHT

Robe of chastity is the most comely dress.

[Imam Ali (AS)]