At the age of 61

• 18-September-2005 : Angela Merkel of the Christian Democratic Union and Gerhard Schroder of the Social Democratic Party both claim victory in the German federal election.
• 04-June-2003 : Martha Stewart and her broker are indicted for using privileged investment information and then obstructing a federal investigation. Stewart also resigns as chairperson and chief executive officer of ''Martha Stewart Living''.
• 29-September-1998 : Iraq disarmament crisis: The U.S. Congress passes the "Iraq Liberation Act", which states that the United States wants to remove Saddam Hussein from power and replace the government with a democratic institution.
• 03-January-1993 : In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
• 26-January-1992 : Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
• 10-June-1980 : Apartheid: The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a statement by their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela, which says in part: 'UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!
• 19-December-1978 : Former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi is arrested and jailed for a week for breach of privilege and contempt of parliament.
• 07-November-1978 : Indira Gandhi is rereelected to the Indian parliament.
• 21-February-1975 : Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, are sentenced to between 30 months and 8 years in prison.
• 08-January-1975 : U.S. President Gerald Ford appoints Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to head a special commission looking into alleged domestic abuses by the CIA.