On this day in 1961, US President John F Kennedy signed an act establishing the Peace Corps, an independent overseas volunteer program of the US government.
On this day in 1996, Bob Dent, an Australian cancer victim, became the first man in the world to legally commit suicide, by lethal injection under a voluntary euthanasia law.
On this day in 2013, Bo Xilai, at one time seen as a rising political star in China, was found guilty of accepting bribes and abuses of power, stripped of all his assets and sentenced to life imprisonment.