1965 - Tomas B. Mapua, renowned Filipino architect and founder of the Mapua Institute of Technology, dies.
1603 - Emperor Mehmed III dies; he is notorious in Ottoman history for having ordered the murder of 19 of his brothers/half-brothers and over 20 of his sisters/half-sisters.
1972 - Fourteen survivors are found by the Chilean Air Force in the Andes ten weeks after their plane crashed.
2001 -Hamid Karzai is sworn is as Afghanistan President following the country's first popular elections.
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