South African black civil rights leader Steve Biko was buried in King William's Town after dying in police custody.
MDBO1978 -MDNM A light aircraft collided with a Pacific Southwest airlines Boeing 727 over San Diego. A total of 151 people were killed, including 14 on the ground.
MDBO1983 -MDNM Thirty-eight prisoners, most of them Irish Republican Army members, escaped from the high security Maze Prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
MDBO1983 -MDNM Leopold III, king of Beligum 1934-51, died.
He became a national embarrassment and was forced to abdicate in 1951 because of his alleged collaboration with Nazi Germany.
MDBO1984 -MDNM Egypt and Jordan formally resumed diplomatic relations.
MDBO1990 -MDNM The UN Security Council adopted a stringent air embargo against Iraq and Iraqi-occupied Kuwait, barring passenger and cargo traffic except in humanitarian cirumstances.
MDBO1990 -MDNM Bulgaria's ruling Socialist Party reelected Alexander Lilov as leader and ousted key reformers from top party posts.
MDBO1991 - MDNMThe UN Security Council imposed a mandatory arms embargo on Yugoslavia and called for an end to the fighting in the fragmented Balkan state.
MDBO1992 -MDNM Moscow and Washington swept away one of the last Cold War relics by granting freedom of travel to journalists and business representatives working in each other's countries.
MDBO1994 -MDNM Swiss voters approved a government plan to introduce a law against racism. The new law made it an offence not just to discriminate against others or incite race hatred but also to deny proven acts of genocide, such as the Nazi holocaust.
MDBO1996 -MDNM Taleban forces seized the town of Sarobi from the Hezb-i-Islamic faction in a major setback to the Kabul government led by President Rabbani and Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.