HISTORY
1919 -- The captured German fleet interned at Scapa Flow in Scotland's Orkney Islands was scuttled, to the surprise of the British who were guarding it. Over 70 vessels were sunk on the orders of Admiral von Reuter.
1942 -- Tobruk fell to the German army under Field Marshal Rommel during World War II.
1963 -- Cardinal Giovanni Montini was elected Pope after the death of John XXIII. He became Pope Paul VI.
1982 -- John Hinckley was found not guilty of the attempted murder of U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1981 by reason of insanity.
1990 -- Hungary officially relaunched its stock exchange 42 years after the Communist Party closed it. The Budapest exchange was the first Western-style securities exchange in any Warsaw Pact country.
2001 -- John Lee Hooker, veteran American blues guitarist, died. He was 83.
2003 -- George Axelrod, U.S. playwright and Hollywood screenwriter died. He was 81.
2004 -- SpaceShipOne successfully powered beyond the earth's atmosphere in the world's first manned commercial space flight spending 3-1/2 minutes at its peak altitude.
2005 -- Cardinal Jaime Sin, a driving force behind two Philippine "People Power" revolts that drove presidents Ferdinand Marcos and Joseph Estrada from office in 1986 and 2001, respectively, died aged 76.
2005 -- Guillermo Suarez Mason, a leading army general accused of kidnapping babies born in captivity during Argentina's 1976-83 military dictatorship, died aged 81.