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1931 - American gangster Al Capone convicted of tax evasion.
1961 - Riot police and Algerians demonstrating against colonial rule clashed in Paris. The authorities say only three people died but human rights groups insist the figure was over 240.
1989 - The 103-nation Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species approved a worldwide ban on ivory trading.
1989 - The deadliest U.S. earthquake since 1906 shook the San Francisco Bay area, killing 67 people.
1997 - Thirty years after Che Guevara was killed in Bolivia, Cuba finally buried the legendary leftist guerrilla in a mausoleum in the central city of Santa Clara.
2000 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth meets with Pope John Paul II.
2001 - Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi was shot dead in Jerusalem. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility.
2003 - The Taipei 101 office block attained its full height of 508 metres (1,667 ft), unseating Malaysia's Petronas Towers as the world's tallest building.
2006 - Pele's daughter Sandra Regina Arantes do Nascimento, who won a long legal battle to have the former soccer player recognised as her father, died of cancer. She was 42.
2008 - Levi Stubbs, lead singer of the Four Tops and one of the most recognizable voices of Motown soul in hits such as "Reach Out I'll Be There," died.
2009 - Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed holds first underwater cabinet meeting in bid to raise awareness over rising sea levels due to climate change.
