In 1945, President Harry S. Truman signed the United Nations charter.
In 1963, 15 thieves stole close to 2.6 million pounds sterling from a mail train in Britain’s “Great Train Robbery.”
In 1974, President Richard Nixon announced on national television that he would resign the presidency the following day.
In 1990, Iraq announced its “unification” with Kuwait, days after its military forces had invad…