Notable Events
President Roosevelt authorized a flag for the office of the vice president.
1943
The government announced that shoe rationing would go into effect in two days, limiting each purchaser to three pairs for the remainder of the year.
1944
During World War II, the Germans launched a counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy.
1948
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff and was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley.
1974
The island nation of Grenada won independence from Britain.
1984
Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered spacewalk.
1986
Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier fled his country, ending 28 years of family rule.
1990
The Soviet Union's Communist Party agreed to let other political parties compete for control of the country, thereby giving up its monopoly on power.
1991
The Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sworn in as Haiti's first democratically elected president.
1995
Ramzi Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan, after two years as a fugitive.
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