On this day in 1945, the Labour Party won the United Kingdom general election by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
On this day in 1947, US President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law, creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
On this day in 1953, Fidel Castro led an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.
On this day in 1956, Taiwan held its first joint college entrance examination.
And on this day in 1977, the National Assembly of Quebec imposed the use of French as the official language of the provincial government.