1909 - Frenchman Louis Blériot made the first crossing of the English Channel, flying a monoplane from Les Baraques near Calais to Dover.
1934 - Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated in Vienna by Nazis.
1943 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini resigned after a meeting with his Grand Council. King Victor Emmanuel appointed Marshal Badoglio as Prime Minister.
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the world's first "test tube baby," was born at Oldham General Hospital in Lancashire, England.
1994 - Israeli and Jordanian leaders signed a historic declaration in Washington ending the state of war between them.
2000 - A French Concorde plane crashed in Gonesse, resulting in the deaths of at least 110 people.
2001 - Phoolan Devi, the "bandit queen" of India who became a parliament member, was shot dead.
2006 - Victoria, Military Crosses were sold for a world record price of $916,000 in Sydney.
2007 - German actor Ulrich Mühe, whose harrowing portrayal of an East German secret police agent in the Oscar-winning drama "The Lives of Others" gained him international fame, passed away at the age of 54.
2012 - 11-year-old pianist Ethan Bortnick entered the record books as the youngest solo musician to headline his own tour.
