1928 - Emmeline Pankhurst, an English women's rights activist, passed away. A law was passed for equality between men and women immediately after her death.
1936 - The Soviet short story writer, novelist, and playwright Maxim Gorky died.
1946 - John Logie Baird, the Scottish inventor and pioneer in television development, passed away.
1971 - The New York Times began publishing excerpts from the top-secret Pentagon Papers regarding the Vietnam War.
1994 - Henry Mancini, the American composer known for the soundtracks of "The Pink Panther," "Days of Wine and Roses," and "Breakfast at Tiffany's," among other successful films, passed away.
2004 - British businessman Richard Branson set a new world record by crossing the English Channel in an amphibious sports car modeled after James Bond in less than two hours.
2005 - Charles Robert Jenkins, a former U.S. Army sergeant who defected to North Korea in 1965, returned.
2007 - Kurt Waldheim, former United Nations Secretary-General and Austrian president, passed away at the age of 88; his reputation was tarnished by revelations that he had concealed his past in the Nazi German army.
2013 - Inmates in Peru attempted to achieve a world record for the largest group of prisoners performing a full-body resistance routine.
2014 - Russian-backed separatists shot down a Ukrainian military transport plane.
2017 - A fire at the Grenfell Tower in London resulted in dozens of casualties.
