1913 -- Woodrow Wilson was sworn in as 28th U.S. president, only the second Democrat to hold the office since the Civil War.

1970 -- The French submarine Eurydice sank off Toulon. All 57 aboard died.

1977 -- An earthquake in Romania killed more than 1,500 people; 35,000 families were made homeless.

1980 -- Rhodesian governor Lord Soames invited Robert Mugabe to form a government after his ZANU-PF party won a decisive election victory in what became Zimbabwe.

1999 -- A military jury found a U.S. Marine pilot not guilty on all charges in the deaths of 20 people killed in 1998 when his jet sheared lift cables over a ski resort in Italy.

2002 -- Veteran ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova was elected president of Kosovo in a vote that marked a major step towards self-rule in the province.

2004 -- Horst Koehler resigned as head of the International Monetary Fund to seek the German presidency.

2005 -- Italian secret service agent Nicola Calipari was mistakenly shot dead by U.S. soldiers in Baghdad while trying to shield a journalist whose release from kidnappers he had just secured.