MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2000: The first resident crew—including one American and two Russians—arrived at the International Space Station. [Take our astronomy and space quiz.]

1983: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill designating the third Monday in January a national holiday in memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. [ Watch the construction of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, Washington, D.C.]

1964: King Saud of Saudi Arabia was formally deposed; he was succeeded by his brother Faisal. [ Take our quiz about the Middle East.]

1963: South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem was killed in a coup. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about Southeast Asia.]

1950: Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925, died at age 94. [Test your knowledge of English and Irish playwrights.]

1949: The Netherlands and the Republic of Indonesia signed the Hague Agreement, an attempt to end conflict over Indonesia's proclaimed independence.