General Abdel Aziz sworn in as President of Mauritania:
Came to power in a coup in 2008 and was sworn in as the President of Mauritania after elections in 2009.
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty is Signed:
The document was signed by the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States in Moscow. The treaty, banned the testing of nuclear weapons anywhere on land, over water or in space. Underground testing was still allowed under the treaty, until it was also banned in 1996 after the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
Nelson Mandela is Arrested:
The South African anti-apartheid activist and adherent of nonviolence was arrested by the government at Rivonia, a suburb of Johannesburg. Mandela was imprisoned at the infamous Robben Island prison where we spent 18 years. He was released from prison in 1990 after spending 28 years as a political prisoner. Mandela was elected the country’s first black president in 1994.
- 1979 David Healy
Irish footballer
- 1968 Marine Le Pen
French politician
- 1930 Neil Armstrong
American pilot, engineer, astronaut, first person to walk on the moon
- 1991 Paul Brown
American football coach, executive
- 1984 Richard Burton
Welsh actor
- 1964 Art Ross
Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962 Marilyn Monroe
American model, actress, singer
