1897 - The Naic Military Agreement declaring the act of treason committed against the nation and the revolution by several Filipino revolutionaries who have forced a peace pact with the Spanish colonial forces is signed by Filipino Katipunan head Supremo Andres Bonifacio and other revolutionary members; the signatories resolve that they are no longer bound to recognize the authority of the traitors and that all revolutionary forces shall be unified under the command of Gen. Pio del Pilar who, ironically, will later betray Bonifacio and advise the latter's nemesis, Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, to have the Supremo executed.
1986 - Cuba's Fidel Castro announces a partial return to the moral incentives of the late 1960s after the prices of oil, sugar, and nickle began plummeting and the economy showed signs of deep trouble; seven months later during the PPC Congress of the Peoples Press, Castor will announce major economic reforms aimed at rectifying the blunders caused by economic liberalization.
1995 - The Oklahoma Bombing kills a total of 168 people and injures over 500 others as a car bomb explodes at a government building housing a nursery on the second floor in Oklahoma City, United States; Gulf War veteran Timonthy McVeigh will be found guilty and convicted to death for carrying out the attack, apparently done in retaliation against the US Government for the bloody end to a Texas siege against the Branch Davidian sect.
2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected as the Pope - the head of the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics to succeed the late Pope John Paul II; taking the name of Pope Benedict XVI, Ratzinger was a very close friend of his predecessor and shared opposition to birth control and the ordination of women while supporting the vow of celibacy by the priests.
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