1960

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev protested remarks at the United Nations by pounding his shoe on his desk.

1973

President Richard Nixon nominated House minority leader Gerald R. Ford of Michigan to succeed Spiro T. Agnew as vice president.

1984

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escaped an attempt on her life when an Irish Republican Army bomb exploded at a hotel in Brighton, England, killing five people.

2000

17 sailors were killed in a suicide bomb attack on the destroyer USS Cole in Yemen.