1956 - Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected President of Egypt.
1978 - Renato Curcio, leader of the Italian Red Brigade in urban guerrilla warfare, was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
1995 - Medical pioneer Jonas Salk, who developed the first vaccine against polio, passed away.
1996 - Sprinter Michael Johnson celebrated his victory with a world record in the men's 200 meters.
1996 - Andreas Papandreou, former socialist Prime Minister of Greece, died after a long battle with illness.
1998 - Passengers disembarked from a hijacked plane at Valencia Airport.
2001 - Fugitive Peruvian intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos, one of the most wanted in Latin America, was arrested in Venezuela.
2005 - Edgar Ray Killen, a former Ku Klux Klan member, was sentenced to 60 years in prison for orchestrating the murders in 1964 of three civil rights workers who were registering Black voters in Mississippi.
2006 - Television producer Aaron Spelling (83 years old), who helped shape American television with shows like "Beverly Hills 90210" and "Dynasty," passed away.
2013 - The full moon, also referred to as the "Super Moon," occurred.
2016 - Britain voted to leave the European Union in a historic referendum.
