US and Japan strike deal in auto talks
1995 — Japan and the United States reached an agreement in auto trade talks just hours before an American deadline for record sanctions against Japanese cars. “Japan has agreed that it will begin to truly open its auto and auto parts market to Americans,” US President Bill Clinton said. “This agreement is specific. It is measurable. It will achieve real, concrete results.” He said Washington would drop its threat to impose sanctions against $5.9 billion (Dh21.7 billion) worth of luxury Japanese automobiles, which would have come into effect at midnight. In return, Japanese Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto said that Tokyo had dropped its complaint against the US before the World Trade Organisation, the global trade policeman.
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1797 - France occupies Ionian Islands of Greece.
1812 - Napoleon Bonaparte’s army crosses Vilna River as Russian forces retreat.
1846 - The saxophone is patented by Adolphe Sax in Paris, France.
1914 - Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated at Sarajevo, igniting the First World War.
1919 - Treaty of Versailles ending the First World War is signed in France.
1939 - Pan American Airways launches the first transatlantic passenger service.
1950 - North Korean forces capture Seoul, as South Koreans retreat south of Han River.
1996 - Turkey’s president Sulaiman Demirel approves the country’s first Islamic-led government in 73 years.
1996 - Shaikh Khalifa Bin Saeed Al Maktoum dies at the age of 80.
1997 - Cuban and Argentine forensic experts uncover the remains of legendary guerrilla leader Ernesto Che Guevara and five of his companions near the Bolivian town of Vallegrande.
1999 - Computer hackers deface the US Army’s main website after having hacked into the White House, FBI and US Senate web sites.
2004 - US hands over sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government.
2010 - Turkey closes its airspace to some Israeli military flights following a deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship.
2011 - Christine Lagarde becomes the first woman to head the International Monetary Fund.
2012 - UAE helps broker first bilateral agreement between Somalia and Somaliland in 21 years.
2013 - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is sworn in for a second term.
