1660 - Filipino rebels during the early Spanish colonial period capture and ransack the village of Bagnotan, Lingayen under the leadership of Don Andres Malong.
1890 - Sioux chieftain "Sitting Bull," champion of the cause of Native Americans, is murdered.
1961 - German National Socialist officer Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death in Israel for his role in the deportation and mass extermination of millions of Jews during World War II.
1989 - A demonstration in communist Romania is held and will later become a popular uprising that will commence the decline of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
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