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1469 ~ Birthday of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian Historian & Political Author.

1844 ~ Birthday of Richard D'Oyly Carte, English Impresario.

1898 ~ Birthday of Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel.

1937 ~ Gone With the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

1945 ~ Indian forces captured Rangoon, Burma, from the Japanese.

1946 ~ The International Military Tribunal for the Far East began in Tokyo against Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

1971 ~ Anti-war protesters began four days of demonstrations intended to shutting down Washington, D.C.

1972 ~ Birthday of Suzi Suzuki, Japanese Porn Actress.

1990 ~ The Latvian parliament met to declare independence from the USSR.

2006 ~ Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced to life in prison.