Today in History

1868 - Pieter Philip van Bosse becomes prime minister of the Netherlands.

1917 - The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded.

1943 - President Ramón Castillo is ousted and Arturo Rawson declares himself president in a military coup in Argentina.

1979 - South African President John Vorster resigns amid scandal. 1982 - The first secretary of the Kuwaiti Embassy in India, Mustafa Al Marzook, is shot dead in his South Delhi residence.

1989 - Chinese troops storm Tiananmen Square in Beijing to crush the pro-democracy movement.

2004 - Gyanendra, the last king of Nepal, ascends the throne after the massacre in the Royal Palace.

2008 - Barack Obama makes history by becoming the first black presidential nominee of a major US party.

2010 - British environmentalist Roz Savage has become the first woman to row alone across the Pacific Ocean after finishing a nearly 13,000km journey.

2011 - Li Na makes history in the French Open, becoming the first player from China to win a Grand Slam singles title.