The 19th amendment to United States Constitution comes into affect. It gives women the right to vote.

Possible start of the Cold War. Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of…

The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried as Mount Vesuvius erupts.

Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression treaty.

Mona Lisa was stolen. It was found 2 years later.

The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland between Jacobite clans and government forces.

A cease-fire is agreed after almost eight years of conflict in the Iran-Iraq war.

Five people are executed in the  Witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts  after being convicted of witchcraft.

The “axe murder incident”  in the Korean Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjeom kills two US soldiers.

In Bangladesh, over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 different locations. Two people were killed.