On this day in 1937, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the city of Nanjing fell to the Japanese.
On this day in 1949, the Knesset voted to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
On this day in 2002, the EU announced that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia would become members from May 1, 2004.
And on this day in 2003, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was captured near his home town of Tikrit.