➢ National Bacon Day, ➢ 1879: Birth of the mystic Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi, ➢ 1968: Death of Trigueli, the first Secretary-General of the United Nations, ➢ 1971: Death of Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and founder of ISRO, ➢ 1973: Death of Telugu film actor Chittoor Nagaiah, ➢ 2006: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was executed.