1528-Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, rules for 37 years, and becomes known as the "father of the nation" 1554-Bayinnaung is crowned King of Burma, assembles the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia 1872-Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, 1st imperial coronation in Axum in over 200 years 1948-Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast 1962-Operation Ranch Hand begins, a US Air Force operation to spray South Vietnamese forests with defoliants such as Agent Orange 1989-Ex-dictator of Uganda Idi Amin expelled from Zaire 2010-Earthquake devastates Haiti, killing approximately 160,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince