On this day in 1917, Bolshevik troops captured Moscow, while on this day in 1920, the Bolsheviks defeated the White Russians in the Crimea, ending Russia’s civil war.
On this day in 1952, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), a US government agency directing the development and use of atomic energy, announced the successful testing of the first H-bomb.
On this day in 1965, the WHO declared that malaria had been eradicated in Taiwan.
And on this day in 1995, former Republic of Korea President Roh Tae Woo was arrested on charges of bribe-taking.