On this day in 1942, during World War II, the Swiss Police Instruction denied entry into Switzerland to Jewish refugees.
On this day in 1956, TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, was inaugurated.
On this day in 1983, 38 republican prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of the Maze prison. It is the largest prison escape since WWII and in British history.
And on this day in 2009, US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a joint TV appearance for a G-20 summit, accused Iran of building a secret nuclear enrichment facility.