in Požarevec Serbian and Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milošević is born. In 2006 he dies of heart failure in his cell in The Hague.
In 1922 in Ljubljana the first conference of SKOJ (Young Communist League of Yugoslavia) opens.
In 1968, the Soviet Union and all members of the Warsaw Pact, with exception of Romania, invaded Czechoslovakia to bloodily halt the "Prague Spring" reforms committed to democratic change.
In 1940 Indian politician Rajiv Gandhi is born. He became the sixth Prime Minister of India (1984–1989) at the young age of 40. He took office after his mother's assassination in 1984; he was also assassinated 1991.
In 1980 Reinhold Messner was the first to climbe Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen.
In 1999 wife of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev Raisa Gorbachev dies.
MUSIC HISTORY
1977 - The Brotherhood Of Man is at the top of the British charts with the song 'Angelo'.
1977 - The Emotions soar to the top of the American singles chart with 'Best Of My Love'.
1983 – The CD '18 Greatest Hits' takes Michael Jackson and the group The Jackson Five to the top of the British charts.
1942 - Isaac Hayes, singer (1971 US No.1 single 'Theme From Shaft'). Hayes died in 2008.
2000 - Janet Jackson reigns the American charts with 'Doesn't Really Matter'.
BORN ON THIS DAY
1924 - Jim Reeves, American country singer (1960 'He'll Have To Go').
1948 - Robert Plant, singer with the group Led Zeppelin (1971 'Stairway To Heaven').
1949 - Phil Lynott Irish, singer in Thin Lizzy (1973 'Whisky In The Jar').