This Day In History

1794
Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris during the French Revolution.
1933
Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Spain are established.
1965
Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
2005
The Provisional Irish Republican Army calls an end to its thirty year long armed campaign in Northern Ireland.