On this day in 1974, the U.S. Congress placed a $1 billion limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
On this day in 2003, a car bomb exploded in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
On this day in 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency at Gold King Mine waste water spill released 3 million gallons of heavy metal toxin tailings and waste water into the Animas River in Colorado.