1916 - Horatio Herbert Kitchener, or Lord Kitchener, the supreme commander of the British Army and statesman, was lost at sea when his ship struck a mine off the Orkneys.
1945 - The Allied Control Council took over Germany and divided it into four occupation zones.
1947 - U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall announced his plan to help Europe recover financially from the effects of World War II.
1968 - U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles by Palestinian Arab Sirhan Sirhan and died the following day.
1975 - The Suez Canal, which had been closed during the 1967 war, was reopened to everyone except Israeli shipping.
1999 - American jazz singer Mel Tormé died at the age of 73.
2000 - U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first major Western leader to give a speech before the Russian Duma.
2002 - Sinn Féin, the political ally of the Irish Republican Army, took the top symbolic position in Belfast when a hardline Republican won the Lord Mayor’s office against Protestant opposition.
2003 - Pope John Paul II arrived on the Croatian Adriatic Island of Krk to begin the 100th foreign trip of his papacy, a five-day visit to Croatia.
2004 - Ronald Reagan, President of the United States (1981-1989), died at 93 due to Alzheimer's disease. As the 40th President of the United States, he is credited with helping to end the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
2007 - Lewis Libby, a former top aide to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for lying and obstructing the investigation into the handling of the Iraq War.
