1986 — Super heavyweight Teofilo Stevenson and lightweight Adolfo Horta of Cuba put their names into the record books by becoming the first fighters to win three World Boxing Championship titles. Veterans Stevenson and Horta were joined on the winner’s stand by their 18-year-old teammate Felix Savon, who captured the heavyweight title. Stevenson and Horta scored their unprecedented third World Championship titles in contrasting fashion. The 35-year-old Stevenson, a three-time Olympic gold medallist nearing the end of a spectacular amateur career, stopped the strong but inexperienced Alex Garcia of the US in the second round, while Horta, 28, struggled to take a 3-2 decision over teenager Engels Pedrosa of Venezuela.
Other important events
1792 - Twenty-four merchants form the New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street.
1814 - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden.
1884 - Alaska becomes a US territory.
1940 - Nazi Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium, in the Second World War.
1946 - Ion Antonescu, fascist wartime prime minister of Romania, is sentenced to death.
1949 - British government recognises the Republic of Ireland.
1957 - Egypt bars Israeli ships from the Suez Canal.
1973 - US Senate begins hearings into the Watergate scandal.
1983 - Israel and Lebanon sign a peace treaty.
1987 - 37 American sailors are killed in an Iraqi attack on USS Stark in the Arabian Gulf.
1994 - Malawi voters stream from impoverished villages to take part in first multiparty elections in three decades.
1995 - Conservative Jacques Chirac becomes French President.
1996 - Romano Prodi becomes Prime Minister of Italy.
1997 -Zaire’s new leader Laurent Kabila renames the nation the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1999 - Sonia Gandhi resigns as head of the Congress party in India.
2000 - Indonesia’s first human rights trial convicts 24 soldiers and a civilian of murdering dozens of villagers during a massacre in Aceh province in 1999.
2003 - Sri Lanka’s heaviest rains in 50 years cause flash flooding that kills 250 people.
2004 - The head of the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council Izzadine Saleem is killed in a car bomb suicide attack.
2007 - Trains cross the border dividing the two Koreas for the first time in more than 50 years.
2009 - Dalia Grybauskaite is elected the first female President of Lithuania.
2010 - Justice Renato Corona is sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Philippines.
2012 - Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan sign a deal estimated at $1 billion to construct a dedicated cross-border electricity transmission line.
2013 - Two bombs outside a mosque and another one targeting a funeral procession kill at least 51 people in Iraq.
