1908 - Henry Ford's Model T car was put up for sale.
1918 - Arab forces, aided by the British and led by T.E. Lawrence, captured Damascus from the Ottomans.
1946 - The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg sentenced 12 Nazi leaders to death, marking the first war criminals convicted of crimes against humanity.
1949 - The People's Republic of China was established under the leadership of Mao Zedong.
1960 - Nigeria gained independence from Britain and became a federated republic on this day in 1963.
1993 - Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres shook hands with Jordan's Crown Prince Hassan during a meeting at the White House.
1995 - A U.S. federal jury convicted Egyptian cleric Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and nine others of plotting to bomb the World Trade Center, explode the United Nations, assassinate the Egyptian president, and destroy vital highway tunnels in New York.
1999 - Indonesia held its first democratically elected parliament since 1955.
2004 - American photographer Richard Avedon, who transformed fashion and photography into art forms with images of the world's most famous personalities, passed away at the age of 81.
2005 - Three bombs exploded in popular tourist areas in the Indonesian resort of Bali, killing 23 people, including three suicide bombers.
2008 - The U.S. Congress approved a historic agreement ending a three-decade ban on American nuclear trade with India, marking a victory for President George W. Bush on one of his key foreign policy priorities.
