* 1956 – Former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.

* 2007 – Former Deputy Director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.

* 1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband ; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.

* 1994 – Former Central Intelligence Agency counter-intelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U. S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.

* 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

* 1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.

* 1976 – Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.

* 2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.

Former Pittsburgh Pirate manager Lloyd McClendon is jokingly referred to as having " stolen first " in a June 26, 2001 game – after disputing a call at first base, he yanked the base out of the ground and left the field with it, delaying the game.

China in Central Asia: The Early Stage 125 BCE – CE 23: an annotated translation of chapters 61 and 96 of the History of the Former Han Dynasty.

1970 ), Former New York State Senator ; Brooklyn Borough President ( 2001 – present )

The oldest confirmed written mention of dominoes in China comes from the Former Events in Wulin ( i. e. the capital Hangzhou ) written by the Yuan Dynasty ( 1271 – 1368 ) author Zhou Mi ( 1232 – 1298 ), who listed " pupai " ( gambling plaques or dominoes ) as well as dice as items sold by peddlers during the reign of Emperor Xiaozong of Song ( r. 1162 – 1189 ).

* 1831 – Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.

* 2007 – Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting incident.

* 1905 – Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.

* 1942 – Rana Bhagwandas, Former Pakistani Chief Justice

* 2003 – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit ( see Operation Red Dawn ).

* 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

Former Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, and Attorney General Mohamed Shahabuddeen served a 9-year term on the International Court of Justice ( 1987 – 96 ).

Civic Buildings: Former Arsenal and Archives of the City of Genève, Former Crédit Lyonnais, Former Hôtel Buisson, Former Hôtel du Résident de France et Bibliothèque de la Société de lecture de Genève, Former école des arts industriels, Archives d ' État de Genève ( Annexe ), Bâtiment des forces motrices, Library de Genève, Library juive de Genève « Gérard Nordmann », Cabinet des estampes, Centre d ' Iconographie genevoise, Collège Calvin, Ecole Geisendorf, Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève ( HUG ), Hôtel de Ville et tour Baudet, Immeuble Clarté at Rue Saint-Laurent 2 and 4, Immeubles House Rotonde at Rue Charles-Giron 11 – 19, Immeubles at Rue Beauregard 2, 4, 6, 8, Immeubles at Rue de la Corraterie 10 – 26, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 2 – 6, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 8, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 10 and 12, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 14, Immeuble and Former Armory at Rue des Granges 16, Immeubles at Rue Pierre Fatio 7 and 9, House de Saussure at Rue de la Cité 24, House Des arts du Grütli at Rue du Général-Dufour 16, House Royale et les deux immeubles à côté at Quai Gustave Ador 44 – 50, Tavel House at Rue du Puits-St-Pierre 6, Turrettini House at Rue de l ' Hôtel-de-Ville 8 and 10, Brunswick Monument, Palais de Justice, Palais de l ' Athénée, Palais des Nations with library and archives of the SDN and ONU, Palais Eynard et Archives de la ville de Genève, Palais Wilson, Parc des Bastions avec Mur des Réformateurs, Place Neuve et Monument du Général Dufour, Pont de la Machine, Pont sur l ' Arve, Poste du Mont-Blanc, Quai du Mont-Blanc, Quai et Hôtel des Bergues, Quai Général Guisan and English Gardens, Quai Gustave-Ador and Jet d ' eau, Télévision Suisse Romande, university of Geneva, Victoria Hall

* 1951 – Enda Kenny, Irish politician, Taoiseach of Ireland

* 1993 – History of Northern Ireland: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.

* 1926 – Garret FitzGerald, 7th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland ( d. 2011 )

Party Chairman Dan Boyle and Déirdre de Búrca were nominated by the Taoiseach to Seanad Éireann after the formation of the Fianna Fáil – PD – Green Party government in 2007 and Niall Ó Brolcháin elected in December 2009.

* 1960 – Brian Cowen, Taoiseach of Ireland

* 1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.

* 1999 – Jack Lynch, Taoiseach of Ireland ( b. 1917 )

* October 20 – Jack Lynch, Taoiseach of Ireland ( b. 1917 )

* June 26 – Bertie Ahern is appointed as the 10th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland and Mary Harney is appointed as the 16th, and first female, Tánaiste, after their parties, Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats respectively, win the 1997 General Election.

* January 5 – John A. Costello, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland ( b. 1891 )

* November 10 – Seán Lemass retires as Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland to be replaced in the role by fellow Fianna Fáil member Jack Lynch.

* May 11 – Seán Lemass, Taoiseach of Ireland ( b. 1899 )

* January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.

* December 5 – Jack Lynch resigns as Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland ; he is succeeded by Charles Haughey.

* March 9 – Charles Haughey becomes Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.

* November 3 – Albert Reynolds, eighth Taoiseach of Ireland

* June 15 – In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil party, led by Taoiseach Charles Haughey, fails to win a majority.

* July 12 – In the Republic of Ireland, the Taoiseach Charles Haughey returns to power after Fianna Fáil forms a coalition with the Progressive Democrats.

John Aloysius Costello (; 20 June 1891 – 5 January 1976 ), a successful barrister, was one of the main legal advisors to the government of the Irish Free State after independence, Attorney General of Ireland from 1926 – 1932 and Taoiseach from 1948 – 1951 and 1954 – 1957.

One of the more notable Huguenot descendants in Ireland was Seán Lemass ( 1899 – 1971 ), who served as Taoiseach from 1959 until 1966.

* Sean Francis Lemass, Taoiseach of Ireland from 1959 – 1966, was of Huguenot immigrants who settled in Dublin.