1945 - Ardent Filipino nationalist and great socialist leader Pedro B. Abad Santos dies from ulcer during World War II; "Don Perico," brother of Jose Abad Santos, was one of the leaders of the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (original Communist Party of the Philippines founded in 1930).
1951 - The 6,000-mile-tall Mt. Lamington in New Guinea bellows out smoke before exploding five days later to destroy some 5,000 people and numerous acres of agricultural land; the volcano has never exploded before in human memory.
1970 - Mummar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed as Libyan premier by the General People's Congress; Qaddafi was a nationalist Army captain who conspired to depose monarchical rule in the North African country some four months earlier.
1997 - Princess Diana calls for an international ban on anti-personnel mines during a visit to Angola; she incurs the ire of conservative British ministers for being "ill-informed" but gets applauded by the Labour camp which backs international moratorium on landmines.
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