1920 - American women won the right to vote with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
1972 - English adventurer Sir Francis Chichester died; he became the first person to sail solo around the world in 1966-1967.
1974 - American pilot Charles Lindbergh, who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic in 1927, passed away.
1993 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a treaty of friendship with the Czech Republic after condemning the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
1998 - The world's first electronic arm was installed and tested in Edinburgh.
2003 - The Rwandan Electoral Commission announced that current President Paul Kagame won the first presidential elections since 1994, though the opposition disputed the result.
2004 - Cuba severed diplomatic relations with Panama after its outgoing president Mireya Moscoso granted clemency to four Cuban exiles who planned to assassinate President Fidel Castro in 2000.
2005 - Former Hutu rebel leader Pierre Nkurunziza became the president of Burundi, pledging to respect the peace agreement that brought him to power and ended a 12-year civil war.
2014 - A ceasefire between Gaza and Israel went into effect after 50 days of fighting.
