On this day in 1954, a total of 1,735 diamonds, with a total weight of 368.17 carats, were shipped to Taipei. They had been stolen by the Japanese in China during World War II.
On this day in 1966, American planes bombed Hanoi and Haiphong for the first time in the Vietnam War.
On this day in 1972, the US Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional.
And on this day in 2011, Christine Lagarde, a French lawyer who had held various ministerial posts in the French government, was named the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, making her the first female to head the IMF.