1975 - Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, becoming the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States who did not succeed her husband.
2005 - The nuclear sub USS San Francisco (SSN-711) collides with an undersea mountain at full speed south of Guam. One man was killed, but she surfaced and was repaired.
2006 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake with its epicenter just off the Greek island of Kythira hits much of the country and is felt throughout the entire eastern Mediterranean Sea.