1896: Dow Jones Industrial Average begins with an average of 12 industrial stocks, the daily closing value is 40.9

1908: At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) in southwest Persia, the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made, rights acquired by the United Kingdom

1927: Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company produce the last (and 15 millionth) Model T Ford / Tin Lizzie

1948: South Africa elects a nationalist government under D. F. Malan with an apartheid policy

1972: US President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT I agreement in Moscow, limiting anti-ballistic missile systems and placing the first major restraints on the US-Soviet nuclear arms race

2004: US Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing

Source: Onthisday.com