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1946 - A number of top German Nazis were hanged at Nuremberg after being found guilty of war crimes. They included former foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and former field marshal Wilhelm Keitel.
1951 - Pakistani Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was shot dead while addressing a public meeting in Rawalpindi.
1959 - General George C. Marshall, the U.S. Army chief of staff during World War Two, died. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953.
1973 - U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese peace negotiator Le Duc Tho were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1978 - Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Poland was elected Pope, the first non-Italian to hold the post for 456 years, and took the name John Paul II.
1996 - Seventy-eight people were crushed to death at an overcrowded Guatemalan stadium after fans without tickets pushed their way in to see a World Cup soccer qualifying game.
1998 - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London where he was recovering from an operation, following an extradition request from Spain.
2000 - Chevron, the number two U.S. oil company, unveiled its plan to buy third-ranked Texaco for $35 billion in stock.
2002 - Victorian supersleuth Sherlock Holmes becomes first fictional character to be granted an honorary fellowship by Britain's prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry.
2003 - Colombian Javier Zapata sets world record hopping his bike up the stairs of Latin America's tallest building, Mexico City's Torre Mayor.
2006 - Former Peruvian President Valentin Paniagua, who helped stabilize the country after a corruption scandal felled his predecessor in 2000, died aged 70.
