1917 The Balfour Declaration. A letter from Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Walter Rothschild and the Zionist Federation declares British support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for Jewish people” providing “that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities”.
1917 The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet (under control of V.I. Lenin and the Bolsheviks) meets to lay the groundwork for a rebellion against the democratic government of Russia.
1947 The Flight of the Spruce Goose. The largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built takes its first, and only, flight with designer Howard Hughes at the controls. Despite the nickname the H-4 seaplane was built from fir.
1963 The assassination of the Diem brothers. An American-backed coup by elements of the South Vietnamese Army deposes President Ngo Dinh Diem, murdering him and his brother Ngo Dihn Nhu.