On this day in 1984, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, William Buckley, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
On this day in 1989, a 4,400-year-old mummy was found near the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.
On this day in 2005, Israel officially handed over Jericho to Palestinian control.
On this day in 2014, Crimea voted in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.