1955 - Argentine President Juan Perón resigned, besieged by revolutionary forces, and fled into exile.
1961 - Jamaica voted in a referendum in favor of separating from the West Indies Federation.
1985 - Up to 12,000 people were killed and 40,000 injured when an earthquake struck Mexico City and the surrounding area. The earthquake measured 8.1 on the Richter scale.
1994 - Thousands of U.S. troops stormed the shores of Haiti in an attempt to restore democracy.
2000 - European farmers, truck drivers, and fishermen protested against fuel prices from the North Sea to the Mediterranean as crude oil prices approached their highest levels in a decade.
2002 - South Korean forces entered the demilitarized zone separating the North from the South to open a route through minefields for transportation lines after a historic agreement a few days prior.
2002 - Former military governor of Ivory Coast, Robert Gui, was killed when pro-government forces clashed with rebel soldiers resisting retirement from the army in what the government described as a failed coup.
2004 - Jiang Zemin relinquished the highest position in the Chinese military, handing over the post to Communist Party leader Hu Jintao, completing a historic transition to a younger generation of leaders.
2005 - NASA unveiled a $104 billion plan to return Americans to the Moon by 2018 aboard a capsule-like vehicle.
2006 - The Thai military staged a coup while Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was preparing to give a speech at the United Nations.
2011 - New York Yankees player Mariano Rivera recorded his 602nd save, setting a Major League Baseball record.
