1. 1901 - U.S. President McKinley dies of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeds him
2. 1948 - A groundbreaking ceremony takes place at the site of the United Nations' world headquarters in New York
3. 1951 - UK Prime Minister Clement Attlee opens the largest oil refinery in Europe, at Fawley on Southampton Water
4. 1960 - The army in Congo takes control of the country, just a few months after it gains independence for Britain
5. 1981 - A teenage boy who fired blank shots at the Queen in June pleads guilty to a charge under the 1848 Treason Act
6. 1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco dies of the injuries she sustained in a car crash near Monte Carlo the day before
7. 1983 - Amy Winehouse is born
8. 1984 - Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a balloon solo across the Atlantic Ocean
9. 1985 - USSR expels 25 Brits in tit-for-tat spy row, just two days after Britain expelled 25 Soviet spies following the defection of KGB chief Oleg Gordievsky
10. 1994 - Acting commissioner Bud Selig announces the cancellation of the 1994 baseball season on the 34th day of a strike by players
11. 2001 - The FBI release the names of the 19 suspected hijackers that had taken part in the September 11 terror attacks on the U.S.
Sources: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com
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