1541 – Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes painting The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican
1860 – Juliette Low, the founder off the Girl Scouts, was born.
1868 – Postmaster General Alexander Williams Randall approved a standard uniform for postal carriers.
1892 – Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
1922 – Benito Mussolini became prime minister of Italy.
1924 – World Savings Day was announced in Milan
1941 – Mount Rushmore was declared complete after 14 years of work. At the time the 60-foot busts of U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln were finished.
1969 – Wal-Mart Discount City stores were incorporated as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
1984 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated near her residence by two Sikh security guards
By: Archa Dave
