2002 - The Booker Prize has been renamed the 'Man Booker Prize for Fiction', and the Supreme Court of Pakistan legalized the referendum of President Pervez Musharraf.
2001 - The first space tourist Tennis Tito left for the space station.
2004-Thabombeki was sworn in as the President of South Africa.
1945- Dictator Mussolini and his wife (mistress) were shot dead by Italian patriotic soldiers.
1935- Underground train 'Metro' started in Russia's capital Moscow.
1932- Announcement of development of yellow fever vaccine for humans.
1943- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose boarded a Japanese submarine from a German submarine near Madagascar during his journey from Germany to Japan.