2009: The World Health Organization says swine flu is now formally a pandemic, a declaration that speeds vaccine production and spurs government spending to combat the first global flu epidemic in 41 years.
1967: The United Nations brokers a ceasefire between Israel and the defeated Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, ending the Six-Day War with Israel occupying the Sinai, West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights.
1999: Cheering residents of Prokuplje, Kosovo, throw flowers onto several dozen Yugoslav army vehicles heading out of the province, as North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops mass across the border in Macedonia.
2004: Congo government troops put down a coup attempt, overcoming the second crisis in the same month for the country's patched-together, post-war government.
Ben Jonson, English poet and playwright (1572-1637); John Constable, British artist (1776-1837); Julia Margaret Cameron, British photographer (1815-1879); Millicent G Fawcett, British suffragette (1847-1929); Richard Strauss, German composer (1864-1949); Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese novelist and Nobel laureate (1899-1972); Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French underwater explorer (1910-1997); Gene Wilder, US actor (1933-2016); Bruce Robison, US country singer/songwriter (1966- ); Shia LaBeouf, US actor (1986- ); Hugh Laurie, British actor (1959- )
