** Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.

** Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

** Former Senator John Tower and 22 others are killed in an airplane crash in Brunswick, Georgia, United States.

** Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke wins a spot in the runoff election for governor of Louisiana, ultimately losing to Edwin Edwards.

** Former Dutch queen Wilhelmina buried at the New Church in Delft.

** Former U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson dies at his Stonewall, Texas ranch, leaving no former U. S. President living until the resignation of Richard M. Nixon in 1974.

** Former California Governor Ronald Reagan enters the race for the Republican presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.

** Former King Chang of Goryeo ( assassinated )

** Wang Jian ( Former Shu )

** Former U. S. President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a 5-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first U. S. President, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

** Former King Gongyang of Goryeo ( b. 1345 )

** Chen Chien-Chou 陳建洲 / 陈建洲 ( Blackie 黑人 ) ( 1977 -; ancestral Meixian, Guangdong ; born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan ; Hakka pronunciation: Chin Kian Zhiu ), Compere ; Former national basketball player, Chinese Taipei national basketball team

** Former Edmonton Oiler Chris Pronger for being a " turncoat "

** Former local electricity supply authorities established as energy companies

** Former Shu ( 前蜀 ), one of the divisions of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period ( 907 – 925 )

** Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc .: Former American holding company, formerly Konami of America Inc., Konami Corporation of America.

** Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH: Former holding company Europe, formerly Konami Limited, Konami Corporation of Europe B. V .. On March 31, 2003, Konami of Europe announced it would be renamed as Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH at the start of Konami ’ s new financial year ( 2003-04-01 ).

** Former Senior Vice President, Operations – Greg Emmer

** People's Self-Defense Political Party ( Former Forward, Ukraine!

** 3rd Field Hospital ( Former 3rd Casualty Clearing Station )

** 5th Field Hospital ( Former 5th Casualty Clearing Station )

** Former OLT owners incl.

** Former Saint Joseph's Institution, now a museum in Singapore

** Former name of Chervona Ukraina light cruiser

** ( formerly SS Sgt.

** ( formerly SS PFC Eugene A. Obregon, SS Thomas Heywood )

** ( formerly SS Maj. Stephen W. Pless, SS Charles Carroll )

** The Cathedral of SS.

** The SS E. A. Bryan, loaded with ammunition, explodes at the Port Chicago naval base ; 320 are killed.

** Resistance fighters ambush and attempt to execute SS general Hanns Albin Rauter, the arch-persecutor of the Dutch.

** Wilhelm Rediess, SS and Police Leader of Nazi-occupied Norway ( suicide ) ( b. 1900 )

** Eduard Wirths, German doctor, chief SS doctor at Auschwitz concentration camp ( suicide ) ( b. 1909 )

** The SS Sussex is torpedoed, resulting in the Sussex pledge.

** The-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board ( an event immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot ).

** The first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrives in London aboard the SS Strathleven.

** The Nazi SA camp Oranienburg becomes a national camp, taken over by the SS.

** 16 October: Sailed for Europe on board the Dutch packet SS Vlydte

** Acta SS.

** SS, a common naming prefix for any Merchant vessel

** SS, a Ship prefix identifying a ship's propulsion as steam powered

** SS San Mateo

** SS Shasta

** The SS Atlantic is wrecked off Peggys Cove

** Community building turned into a pig slaughterhouse by the SS, with Jewish gravestones from the Konskie Jewish cemetery

** 88th Oak Leaves on 20 April 1942 as SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS and commander of SS -" Totenkopf " Division

** 7. 92 mm Solothurn M SS 41