1920 - American women won the right to vote when the 19th amendment to the Constitution was ratified.

1974 - Charles Lindbergh, U.S. aviator who made the first solo non-stop Atlantic flight in 1927, died.

1976 - Prince Bernhard, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, agreed to resign his positions in the armed forces and industry after a commission of inquiry into a Lockheed bribery scandal criticized his behavior.

1978 - Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected pope, becoming John Paul I. He served only 33 days before dying on September 28.

1990 - Mario Pinto de Andrade, Angolan nationalist and first president of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, died in London aged 62.

1993 - Russian president Boris Yeltsin signed a friendship treaty with the Czech Republic after condemning the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.

1997 - South Africa's last white president, F.W.

de Klerk, announced he was quitting as leader of the opposition National Party.

1999 - More than 60,000 Brazilians demanding an end to president Fernando Henrique Cardoso's austerity drive massed in front of Congress in the biggest protest against his government.

2000 - Somalia's new parliament-in-exile elected veteran politician Abdiqassim Salad Hassan as president, the country's first since it collapsed into anarchy nine years earlier.