1907 - Canadian Tommy Burns retains his world heavyweight boxing title after beating Philadelphia Jack O'Brien on points in 20 rounds in Los Angeles, California 1959 - Little Caesars Pizza is founded by Mike Ilitch and his wife Marian Ilitch in Garden City, Michigan 1969 - Cambodia recognizes the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 1970 - Thousands of students protest against the Vietnam War following the Kent State University shootings in Ohio 1973 - Wounded Knee Occupation ends after 10 weeks as 200 Oglala Lakota of the American Indian Movement surrender the South Dakota hamlet 1976 - The rollercoaster Revolution (roller coaster), the first steel coaster with a vertical flip, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain 1988 - François Mitterrand elected President of France 2013 - 33 people are killed after an overloaded bus falls into a river in Himachal Pradesh, India 2018 - President Trump pulls the US out of the multilateral Iran nuclear deal 2024 - New York has more millionaires than any other city in the world, one in 24, with 744 centi-millionaires worth more than 100 million and 60 billionaires according to new ranking More Historical Events »