On this day in 1942, Japanese high command ordered withdrawal at Milne Bay. That was the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
On this day in 1944, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constituted Benelux.
On this day in 1945, Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, was arrested in Yokohama.
On this day in 1960, Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, won the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
On this day in 1972, a Palestinian terrorist group called "Black September" attacked and took hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two died in the attack and nine died the following day.
And on this day in 1991, the current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force.