1945 – Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organization.
1965 – Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.
1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
2001 – Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.