1907 – The schooner
Thomas
W.Lawson runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's
Reef within the Scilly
Isles in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
2004
– Cuba and
Venezuela founded the Bolivarian Alliance for the
Americas.
2008 – PresidentGeorge W.Bush made his
fourth and final (planned) trip to Iraq as
president and almost got struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi
journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi
during a farewell conference in Baghdad.