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Highlights in history on this date:
1809 - French army under Napoleon Bonaparte takes Vienna.
1888 - Serfdom is abolished in Brazil.
1917 - Three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, report seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary.
1940 - In his first speech as prime minister of Britain, Winston Churchill tells the House of Commons, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
1968 - Peace negotiations open in Paris between United States and North Vietnam.
1981 - Pope John Paul II is shot and seriously wounded in Rome by Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turk. Eastern European intelligence agencies are suspected to be behind the attack on the Polish-born pontiff.
1994 - Israeli troops leave Jericho after 27 years, giving the Palestinian Authority control over its first West Bank town.
2000 - The Vatican ends an enduring mystery, saying the third secret of Fatima, the Virgin Mary is said to have told three children in 1917, was a foretelling of the shooting of Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2009 - European Union fines Intel, world's largest chip maker, a record $1.45 billion for using strong arm sales tactics.
Today's Birthdays:
Pius IX, Italian pope (1792-1878); Sir Arthur Sullivan, English composer (1842-1900); Dame Daphne du Maurier, English novelist/playwright (1907-1989); Joe Louis, U.S. former heavyweight boxing champion (1914-1981); Bea Arthur, U.S. actress (1922-2009); Stevie Wonder, U.S. pop singer (1950--); Kim Fields, U.S. actress (1969--); Stephen Colbert, U.S. comedian (1964--); Samantha Morton, British actress (1977--).
