1901 - The first Australian Parliament opened in Melbourne.
1926 - Americans Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first to fly over the North Pole.
1927 - Canberra replaced Melbourne as the capital of Australia.
1978 - The body of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was found in the trunk of a car in Rome. He had been kidnapped and killed by the Red Brigades.
1986 - Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, who, along with Edmund Hillary, was one of the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953, passed away.
2001 - 126 people died in a stampede at the main football stadium in Accra when police fired tear gas at unruly fans. It was the worst football disaster in Africa.
2001 - Nikos Sampson, leader of a short-lived coup inspired by Greece that led to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, died at the age of 66.
2002 - A radio-controlled landmine exploded in Kaspiysk, Dagestan, Russia, killing 42 people and injuring 150 others during a Victory Day parade.
2004 - Chechen leader pro-Moscow Akhmad Kadyrov was killed when a bomb exploded in a crowded stadium in Grozny.
2014 - 111-year-old Alexander Imich received a certificate as the oldest living man in the world.
2015 - The Russian Victory Day parade in Moscow commemorated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
