1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opened, with 200,000 people crossing it on its first day. It took four years, four months, and 22 days to complete.
1963 - Jomo Kenyatta was elected the first Prime Minister of self-governing Kenya, becoming head of state upon its independence from Britain the following year.
1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, died at the age of 74.
1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales, opened the Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts in Leicester.
1999 - The UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague confirmed that it had charged Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic with being a war criminal.
1999 - Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" was unveiled in Milan after 20 years of restoration work.
2002 - Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali received approval for constitutional reforms that effectively enabled him to rule for life.
2005 - Separatists in Indonesia and Aceh reached an agreement on crucial political issues in a significant step towards ending one of Asia's longest-running armed conflicts.
2007 - Percy Sonn, Chairman of the International Cricket Council and a key figure in the racial integration of the sport in his native South Africa, died at the age of 57.
2013 - The Romanian flag measuring 349.4 × 226.9 meters set a record for the largest national flag in the world.
2016 - Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
