On this day in history
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Source: HistoryNet.com
1903: Near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first successful flight in history of a self-propelled, heavier-than-air aircraft.
1927: U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg suggests a worldwide pact renouncing war.
1938: Italy declares the 1935 pact with France invalid because ratifications had not been exchanged. France denies the argument.
1948: The Smithsonian Institution accepts the Kitty Hawk - the Wright brothers' plane.
1950: The French government appoints Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny to command their troops in Vietnam.
1965: Ending an election campaign marked by bitterness and violence, Ferdinand Marcos is declared president of the Philippines.
1989: The Simpsons, television's longest-running animated series, makes its U.S. debut.
1990: Jean-Bertrand Aristide wins Haiti's first free election.
2002: Congolese parties of the inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord in the Second Congo War, providing for transitional government and elections within two years.
2010: Mohamed Bouazizi immolates himself, the catalyst for the Tunisian revolution and the subsequent Arab Spring.
