1848 - Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
1919 - Adolf Hitler joins the German Workers Party.
1938 - Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1943 - World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
1944 - World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.
1953 - US. Representative John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
2003 - The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
Famous Birthdays
1494 - King Francis I of France
1837 - Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
1907 - Louis MacNeice, poet
1931 - Ian Holm, actor
1944 - Fred Fay, disability rights activist
1951 - Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach (Prime Minister of Ireland )
1957 - Rachel Ward, actress
1978 - Elisabetta Canalis, model and actress
1984 - Petra Marklund "September", singer
1996 - Colin Ford, actor
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