1910 - Dr. Hawley Crippen, arrested while fleeing on a Transatlantic liner by detectives alerted by an early radio transmission, was hanged in London for killing his wife.

1961 -- The Dominican Republic changed the name of its capital from Ciudad Trujillo to Santo Domingo.

1976 -- Andre Malraux died. The French writer was president Charles de Gaulle's long-serving culture minister.

His best-known works include "La Condition Humaine" (Man's Estate) and L'Espoir" (Days of Hope).

1979 -- In Dublin, Thomas McMahon, an Irish Republican Army guerrilla, was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing Earl Mountbatten, the 79-year-old cousin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth who had been Britain's last viceroy of India.

1979 -- Merle Oberon, Australian-born film actress, died. In a film career spanning 40 years, she starred in "The Private Life of Henry VIII" and "Wuthering Heights".

1980 -- An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale struck Eboli in southern Italy, killing 2,735 people and injuring at least 7,500.

1983 -- The Soviet Union walked out of arms limitation talks in Geneva in protest at the deployment of U.S. Cruise missiles in Europe.

1994 -- At least 111 people, mostly women and children, were killed in a stampede after Indian police baton-charged tribal protesters in the western city of Nagpur.

1995 -- Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic forced Bosnian Serb hardliners to accept a U.S.-sponsored peace deal, the key to ending 3-1/2 years of UN sanctions on rump Yugoslavia.

1995 -- Louis Malle, French "New Wave" film director, died.

Best known for "Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud" (Elevator to the Scaffold), "Zazie Dans le Metro" (Zazie in the Subway), "Au Revoir les Enfants" (Goodbye Children and "Atlantic City".

1996 -- A hijacked Ethiopian airlines Boeing 767 with 163 passengers and 12 crew crashed into the sea off the Comoros Islands after apparently running out of fuel; 125 people died.

2001 -- The UN War Crimes Tribunal charged Slobodan Milosevic with genocide in Bosnia in its third and gravest indictment against the former Yugoslav leader.