International History
1947 - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) begins financial operations.
1950 - Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
1953 - Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.
1954 - The United States detonates a 15-megaton hydrogen nomb on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. This is America's second H-bomb test in the area and results in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the US. It is believed the H-bomb was 1000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.
1973 - Gunmen from the Palestinian terrorist group Black September storm the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan resulting in the 1973 Khartoum diplomatic assassinations. At the 1972 Munich Olympics, members of Black September seized nine Israeli athletes who were killed along with five hostage takers and a German policeman in a gun battle.
1992 - Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Yugoslavia.
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