1916
- Great Britain and France sign the Sykes-Picot agreement, planning to partition former Ottoman territory despite promises from the British of establishing independant Arab states.
1943
- The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
1966
- Beginning of the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China
1974
- Josip Broz Tito is elected president of Yugoslavia for life.
1997
- Anti-Communist and CIA supported leader of the Congo Mobutu Sese Suko flees the country.