Todays History

Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.

Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 121 relating to acceptance of Japan to the United Nations is adopted.

Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.

In France, a law separating church and state is passed.

The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.

An earthquake along the coast of Wakayama Prefecture in Japan causes a tsunami which kills 1,223 people

The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.

The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.