1406 – Chen Yanxiang, the only person from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reaches Seoul after having set out from Java four months before.[5]
1945 – World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
1945 – The Lao Issara took control of Laos' government and reaffirmed the country's independence.[11]
1959 – At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.
1963 – After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.
1964 – The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew, and the first flight without pressure suits.
1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
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^Dearinger, Kevin Lane (2007). The Bard in the Bluegrass: Two Centuries of Shakespearean Performance in Lexington, Kentucky. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co. p. 179. ISBN978-0-7864-2895-3.
^Ervin, Hazel Arnett; Holladay, Hilary (2004). Ann Petry's Short Fiction: Critical Essays. Westport: Praeger Publishers. p. xvii. ISBN978-0-3133-2291-4.
^Probst, Ernst (2010). Angelika Machinek - Eine Segelfliegerin der Weltklasse [Angelika Machinek - A World Class Glider Pilot] (in German). Munich: Grin-Verl. p. 11. ISBN978-3-6407-3630-0.