Major events that happened around the world on this day in history.
1775: First U.S. Marines in Action
In 1775, the U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress.
1871: David Livingstone
In 1871, journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard from for years, near Lake Tanganyika in central Africa.
1938: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
In 1938, Turkish statesman Mustafa Kemal Ataturk died in Istanbul at age 57.
1954: U.S. Marine Corps Memorial
In 1954, the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, was dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Arlington, Virginia.
1975: SS Edmund Fitzgerald
In 1975, the ore-hauling ship SS Edmund Fitzgerald mysteriously sank during a storm in Lake Superior with the loss of all 29 crew members.
1982: Leonid I. Brezhnev
In 1982, Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died at age 75.
1982: Vietnam Veterans Memorial
In 1982, the newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its first visitors in Washington, D.C., three days before its dedication.
1997: Louise Woodward
In 1997, a judge in Cambridge, Massachusetts, reduced Louise Woodward's murder conviction to involuntary manslaughter and sentenced the English au pair to the 279 days she'd already served in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen (EE'-puhn).
2009: President Barack Obama
Ten years ago: President Barack Obama visited Fort Hood, Texas, where he somberly saluted the 13 Americans killed in a shooting rampage, and pledged that the killer would be "met with justice — in this world, and the next."
2009: Sniper Execution
Ten years ago: John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks that killed 10 in the Washington, D.C. region, was executed.
2014: Nigeria Violence
Five years ago: A suicide bomber set off explosives at a school in northern Nigeria, killing at least 48 students in the latest attack by suspected Boko Haram militants.
2014: President Barack Obama
Five years ago: President Barack Obama, at the start of a visit to Beijing, announced that the United States and China would start granting visas to each other's citizens valid for up to a decade.
2017: Louis C.K.
In 2017, facing allegations of sexual misconduct, comedian Louis C.K. said the harassment claims by five women that were detailed in a New York Times report "are true," and he expressed remorse for using his influence "irresponsibly."
2018: California Wildfires
One year ago: Authorities in Northern California said 14 additional bodies had been found in the ruins from a fire that virtually destroyed the town of Paradise.
2018: Florida Elections
One year ago: Florida's secretary of state ordered recounts in the races for governor and U.S. Senate.
2018: President Donald Trump
One year ago: President Donald Trump, in France to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, canceled a visit to a cemetery east of Paris where Americans killed in that war are buried; rainy weather had grounded the presidential helicopter.
