1916 - Sirima Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan stateswoman, born. In July 1960, she became the world's first woman prime minister.

1941 - In World War II, the Yugoslav Army and government surrendered to the Germans in Belgrade. On the same day, the British Air Force rescued King Peter of Yugoslavia from Kotor.

1944 - In Italy, Marshal Pietro Badoglio's entire cabinet resigned and he was invited to form a new government.

1957 - Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrived back in Athens after his 13-month exile in the Seychelles.

1961 - An attempt to invade Cuba by U.S.-backed right-wing Cuban exiles failed at the Bay of Pigs. After the three-day battle, 100 were killed and over 1,000 captured.

1969 - Sirhan B. Sirhan was found guilty of the first degree murder of Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot while campaigning in California in June 1968.

1970 - The U.S. spacecraft Apollo 13 splashed down after its near disastrous trip to the moon.

1975 - Khmer Rouge guerrillas seized Phnom Phen and began a reign of terror in which more than one million people died.

1981 - Polish farmers won the legal right to form a trade union.

1984 - U.S. Army General Mark Clark died. He led the Allied forces during the successful Italian campaign against the Axis powers in World War II.

1989 - The Polish trade union Solidarity was legalized after a seven-year ban.

1993 - Turgut Ozal, president of Turkey from 1989, died of a heart attack.

1996 - Police gunned down 19 landless peasants in one of Brazil's bloodiest massacres.

1999 - India's 13-month-old BJP-led government fell after losing a confidence motion by one vote.