1899 - -15] British "Black Week" due to defeats in South Africa 1911 - Belgium poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck is presented in absentia with the Nobel Prize for Literature 1926 - 1st radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS) 1941 - Japanese troops overrun Guam 1942 - An early report of the Holocaust prepared by the Polish government-in-exile‚ using information obtained by Witold Pilecki‚ is addressed to UN member states 1956 - Establishment of The People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola‚ MPLA (from Portuguese: Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola)‚ left-wing party that has ruled since independence from Portugal 1980 - Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth 1983 - Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president 1988 - Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine presented to Gertrude B. Elion‚ George H. Hitchings and James W. Black for development of new drugs 2016 - Terrorist bomb attacks outside a stadium in Istanbul kill 38 and injure 166 More Historical Events »