On this day in 1963, Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.
On this day in 1970, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially received their ranks as US Army Generals, becoming the first females to do so.
On this day in 2008, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to residential school abuse in which children were isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.