1969 – Massive Anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in American cities.
1973 – Spacecraft Pioneer 11 launched.
1984 – Lansana Conte becomes Guinea President.
2014 – Scientists discover that one of Saturn’s moons, Enceladus, has a liquid water ocean beneath its frozen surface.
Born today:
1947 – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President of the Philippines.
Passes away:
2006 – Syrian writer Abdul Salam al-Ojaili.