At the age of 66

• 19-May-2005 : The Canadian House of Commons members narrowly pass two budget bills at a second reading, allowing the minority Liberal government of Prime Minister Paul Martin to stay in power.
• 13-December-2003 : Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq, is captured in Tikrit by the U.S. 4th Infantry Division.
• 22-July-2003 : Uday and Qusay Hussein, sons of Saddam Hussein, are killed by the U.S. military in Iraq, after being tipped off by an informant.
• 27-November-2000 : Jean Chretien is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada, as the Liberal Party increases its majority in the House of Commons.
• 27-March-1993 : Jiang Zemin becomes President of the People's Republic of China.
• 10-February-1985 : Nelson Mandela rejects an offer of freedom from the South African government.
• 16-October-1978 : Pope John Paul II succeeds Pope John Paul I as the 264th pope. He is the first Polish pope in history.
• 24-June-1973 : Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev addresses the American people on television, the first to do so.
• 16-June-1973 : U.S. President Richard Nixon begins several talks with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
• 16-May-1960 : Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union, thus ending the 1960 Paris summit.