This day in history

Angela Merkel becomes Germany's first woman Chancellor.

In Britain, Rosemary West is jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering 10 girls and young women.

Allied leaders Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Chiang Kai-shek meet for the first day of talks in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss joint operations against the Japanese.

Notorious pirate Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, is killed off North Carolina’s Outer Banks during a bloody battle with a British navy force sent from Virginia.