1903 - King Alexander I and Queen Draga were killed due to a coup in the country.
1955 - Three cars crashed on the Le Mans racetrack in France, colliding with the stands and resulting in the deaths of 80 people.
1963 - Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis resigned from his position.
1970 - Russian Revolution leader Alexander Kerensky passed away.
1979 - American film star John Wayne died at the age of 72. Wayne won an Oscar once, for Best Actor in the film "True Grit".
2000 - Paraguay's fugitive coup leader Lino Oviedo was arrested in Brazil after a six-month manhunt and was later extradited to Paraguay.
2001 - Timothy McVeigh was executed six years after detonating a truck bomb outside a federal building in Oklahoma City, resulting in the deaths of 168 people.
2005 - General Vasco Gonçalves, who led four Portuguese provisional governments after a leftist revolution in 1974, passed away at the age of 83.
2008 - Former Vietnamese Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, who played a key role in economic reforms that began in the late 1980s, died.
2012 - An earthquake struck the Baghlan province in Afghanistan.
2015 - Greek state television resumed broadcasting after two years of closure.
