with his brother orville, he made the first ever flight in 1903.

1913 - The first balkan war between turkey and the balkan states ended with the signing of the treaty of london.

1960 - Boris pasternak, russian novelist and poet, famed for his "doctor zhivago", died in moscow.

1961 - General rafael trujillo, dictator of the dominican republic, was assassinated on the way to his farm.

1967 - Claude rains, suave british film actor of stage and screen, died. best known for his roles in the films "casablanca" and "notorious".

1980 - The first papal visit to france since 1814 took place when john paul ii arrived in paris.

1981 - President Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh was shot by a group of rebel officers in the government guest house at Chittagong in an attempted coup by Major General Manzur Ahmed.

1992 - The United Nations Security Council voted to impose sanctions against Yugoslavia in a bid to halt fighting in Bosnia.

1999 - Fifty-two people were crushed to death when hundreds ran into an underground railway station to escape a storm in the Belarussian capital Minsk.

2001 - Former French foreign minister Roland Dumas was found guilty of receiving illegal funds from oil giant Elf Aquitaine and sentenced to six months in prison.