An initial batch of 750 soldiers included ex-members of Saddam Hussain’s disbanded army and Kurdish Peshmerga rebels
2003 - The first recruits to the fledgling New Iraqi Army showed off their fighting skills at a desert camp where the United States-led occupiers hope to turn out 35,000 soldiers in a year. An initial batch of 750 soldiers at the Kirkush camp, near the Iranian border northeast of Baghdad, included ex-members of Saddam Hussain’s disbanded army and Kurdish Peshmerga rebels who until five months ago had been fighting one another.
1882 - British forces occupy Cairo.
1916 - Tanks are used for the first time in war, in a British attack on German lines near the Somme in France.
1947 - Typhoon Kathleen hits Boso Peninsula and Kanto region in Japan, causing massive flooding, 1,930 people are killed.
1987 - Soviet Union and US sign an agreement to limit the chances for accidental nuclear war.
2003 - A fire at Saudi Arabia’s largest prison, Al Hair, in Riyadh kills 67 inmates.
2008 - Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai signs a power-sharing agreement with President Robert Mugabe.
2015 - Malcolm Turnbull is sworn in as Australia’s new prime minister.
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