1939 -- Albert Einstein and other U.S scientists informed President Franklin Roosevelt of the possibilities of developing an atomic bomb.

1962 -- Pope John XXIII opened the Second Vatican Council in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

1976 -- Mao Zedong's widow Jiang Qing and three others, the "Gang of Four", were arrested and charged with plotting a coup in China.

1977 -- North Yemen President Ibrahim al-Hamdi and his brother and brother-in-law were killed by unknown assassins.

1982 -- The Mary Rose, once Henry VIII's flagship, was raised from the Solent off southern England.

2000 -- Jo Myong-rok, deputy to the North Korean leader and the highest-ranking official from that country ever to visit Washington, ended his three-day trip with Secretary of State Albright agreeing to visit Pyongyang.

2004 -- European Union foreign ministers agreed to lift an arms embargo on Libya, imposed in 1986, recognizing Tripoli's renunciation of weapons of mass destruction.

2005 -- The United States apologized to Hungarian Holocaust survivors whose possessions were stolen by U.S. soldiers at the end of World War II after allied forces seized what became known as the “Gold Train”.