Sir Peter Ustinov 1921 - Actor
- 1818 - The U.S. Senate ratified Rush-Bagot amendment to form an unarmed U.S.-Canada border.
- 1917 - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returned to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution after years of exile.
- 1947 - In Texas City, TX, the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up. The explosions and resulting fires killed 576 people.
- 1968 - The Pentagon announced that troops would begin coming home from Vietnam.
- 1972 - Apollo 16 blasted off on a voyage to the moon. It was the fifth manned moon landing.
- 1975 - The Khmer Rouge Rebels won control of Cambodia after a five years of civil war. They renamed the country Kampuchea and began a reign of terror.
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