** Ponte Mallio ( or Manlio ) at Cagli, which appears to be partly of pre-Roman ( Umbrian ) construction

** Ferdinando Manlio, Italian sculptor ( date of birth unknown )

** John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, resigns from the space program.

** In Malta, Prime Minister Dom Mintoff resigns.

** Mani Pulite scandal: Italian legislator Claudio Martelli resigns, followed by various politicians over the next 2 weeks.

** Jacques Attali resigns as President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

** The September 6 merger between Renault and Volvo fails ; Volvo CEO Pehr G. Gyllenhammar resigns.

** Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell resigns as head of the Conservative Party, to be succeeded by Jean Charest.

** Julius Chan resigns as prime minister of Papua New Guinea, ending the Sandline affair.

** United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal resigns suddenly.

** Getúlio Vargas resigns as the president of Brazil.

** President of Bulgaria Petar Mladenov resigns over charges he order tanks to disperse antigovernment protests in December 1989.

** Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadžić resigns from public office in Republika Srpska after being indicted for war crimes.

** Count Camillo Benso di Cavour resigns.

** Following a hung parliament in the UK general election, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigns and is succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson, who previously led the country from 1964 to 1970.

** French prime minister Raymond Poincaré resigns ; he is succeeded by Aristide Briand.

** Polish Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak resigns from Parliament and is replaced by ex-communist Jozef Oleksy.

** Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

** Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, resigns from various posts over a scandal involving alleged corruption, in connection with business dealings with the Lockheed Corporation.

** United States Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Garrett III resigns in the wake of the Tailhook scandal.

** Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.

** American Civil War: Citing failing health, Union General Winfield Scott resigns as Commander of the United States Army.

** Prime Minister of Cape Verde Pedro Pires resigns following his party's loss in the January 13 Cape Verdean parliamentary election, the first ever multiparty election in an African nation.

** Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union, from which most republics have already seceded, anticipating the dissolution of the 74-year-old state.

** The French National Assembly censures the proposed referendum to sanction presidential elections by popular mandate ; Prime Minister Georges Pompidou resigns, but President de Gaulle asks him to stay in office.

** Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as prime minister of Malaysia, and is succeeded by his deputy Tun Abdul Razak.

** In Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami resigns.

** NATO HQ – Skopjie, from 2002 ( Macedonia ) – 1 out of 12 officers from 7 countries

** NATO HQ – Sarajevo, from 2004 ( Bosnia and Herzegovina ) – 20 out of 81 officers from 16 countries

** NATO Training Mission – Iraq, from 2004 ( Iraq ) – 82 out of 169 soldiers from 15 countries

** from this anti-tank missiles ( also S ): List of NATO reporting names for anti-tank missiles

** Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 Fulcrum-12 ( NATO upgraded )

** Aero L-39 Albatros-8 ( NATO upgraded )

** Antonov An-26 Curl-1 ( NATO upgraded )

** Let L-410 Turbolet-5 ( NATO upgraded )

** Mil Mi-17 Hip-H-10 ( NATO upgraded )

** NATO launches air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

** In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) led by the United States launched air attacks against Yugoslavia ( then composed of only Serbia and Montenegro ) to pressure the Yugoslav government to end its military operations against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo due to accusations of war crimes being committed by Yugoslav military forces working alongside nationalist Serb paramilitary groups.

** NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.

** Bosnian Serbs break off contact with the Bosnian government and with representatives of Ifor, the NATO localised force, in reaction to the arrest of several Bosnian Serb war criminals.

** Mrkonjić Grad incident: A United States Air Force F-16 piloted by Captain Scott O ' Grady is shot down over Bosnia and Herzegovina while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.

** Secretary of State Christian Herter announces that the United States will commit five nuclear submarines and eighty Polaris missiles to the defense of the NATO countries by the end of 1963.

** Matthew Ridgway, Commander of NATO, United States Army Chief of Staff ( d. 1993 )

** French President Charles De Gaulle states that French troops will be taken out of NATO and that all French NATO bases and HQ's must be closed within a year.

** France formally leaves NATO.

** NATO moves its HQ from Paris to Brussels.

** Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the 1st nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.

** In Brussels, Belgium, NATO celebrates its 40th anniversary.

** NATO agrees to talks with the Soviet Union on reducing the number of short-range nuclear weapons in Europe.

** Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Prime Minister of Denmark and current Secretary General of NATO