On this day in 1966, labor movements NFWA and AWOC merged to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
On this day in 1968, Pope Paul VI arrived in Bogotá, Colombia. It was the first visit of a pope to Latin America.
On this day in 2003, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.
On this day in 2004, versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, were stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.