On this day in history
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Source: HistoryNet.com
1918: The last of the food restrictions, enforced because of the shortages during World War I, are lifted.
1929: Soviet troops leave Manchuria after a truce is reached with the Chinese over the Eastern Railway dispute.
1967: Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau, in presenting his Omnibus Bill reforming the Criminal Code, tells the House of Commons that "There is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation."
1989: The Romanian government of Nicolae Ceausescu is overthrown, ending 42 years of communist rule.
1989: The division of East and West Germany effectively ends when the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin reopens for the first time in nearly 30 years.
1997: Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes his disputed title of President of Somalia, an important step toward reconciliation in the country.
2001: A passenger on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris, Richard Reid, unsuccessfully attempts to destroy the plane in flight by igniting explosives he'd hidden in his shoes.
2001: President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, takes over an interim government.
