China, Vietnam leaders discuss territorial dispute
1992 - Chinese Premier Li Peng started an historic visit to Vietnam and launched into discussions of territorial disputes which strain relations between the two communist nations. Li is the first Chinese premier to visit Hanoi in 21 years and was welcomed with a red carpet, an army band and a military honour guard. His arrival marked a high point in relations since China and Vietnam normalised ties in November 1991 after more than a decade of hostility, including a brief war. At the initial meeting on territorial disputes both sides merely agreed on the need to find a mechanism to resolve the differences. Vietnamese foreign ministry spokeswoman Ho The Lan said these sea and land disputes would take time to clear up.
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1838 - Mexico declares war on France after French occupation of Vera Cruz.
1918 - Transylvania proclaims union with Romania.
1928 - Australian Don Bradman makes his debut in Test cricket.
1936 - The Crystal Palace in London, England is destroyed by a fire.
1939 - The Soviet Union invades Finland.
1962 - U Thant of Myanmar is elected UN Secretary-General.
1964 - Soviet Union launches spacecraft toward Mars in apparent race with US Mariner 4.
1967 - The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded.
1980 - The Uruguayan military dictatorship loses a plebiscite to amend the constitution.
1981 - US and Soviet Union open negotiations in Geneva aimed at reducing nuclear weapons.
1987 - France and Iran end six-month “embassy war” by exchanging a French diplomat in Tehran.
1988 - Cyclone kills more than 3,000 in Bangladesh.
1993 - US president Bill Clinton signs the Brady handgun-control bill into law.
2000 - South and North Korean relatives, separated for half a century, are reunited in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
2004 - A tropical storm in the Philippines kills at least 340 people.
2005 - For the first time, two Saudi women are elected to the board of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
2007 - An AtlasJet plane crashes on a rocky mountain at Yesilyurt, Turkey, and killing 57 people.
2008 - Space shuttle Endeavour returns to Earth after a nearly 16-day mission to repair and upgrade the international space station.
2012 - Outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderon hands power to Pena Nieto in a symbolic ceremony.
2013 - Fast and Furious actor Paul Walker dies in a car crash in Los Angeles.
2014 - Pope Francis appeals for unity between the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
2016 - The memorial site of ‘Wahat Al Karama’, created to honour the UAE’s brave heroes is inaugurated in Abu Dhabi.
