1761 Britain’s King George III and his wife, Charlotte, are crowned in Westminster Abbey.
1792 French Republic is proclaimed and revolutionary calendar goes into effect.
1893 America’s first automobile, built by bicycle makers Charles and Frank Duryea, debuts on the streets of Springfield, Massachusetts
1927 Slavery is abolished in Sierra Leone in Africa.
1949 The Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb.
1953 The world’s first four-level freeway interchange opens in Long Angeles, California
1955 Hurricane Janet, the most violent Caribbean hurricane of the season, kills 600.
1960 A US Marine Corps DC-6 plane en route from Japan to the Philippines crashes in the ocean 290 kilometres south of Okinawa. All 29 passengers are killed.
1965 A ceasefire is declared in the war between India and Pakistan, but both sides subsequently violate it.
1980 Iraqi tanks enter Iran, marking the beginning of the Iran-Iraq War as a full-scale conflict.
1986 India and Australia ties the first cricket Test at the Chepauk Stadium, Chennai.
1988 UAE and Egypt sign an agreement setting up a joint cooperation committee.
1989 Ten people are killed when an IRA bomb rips through barracks in south-east London.
1993 Abkhazian rebels in Georgia shoot down second passenger plane in two days, killing 80.
1994 Former diplomat Jaafar Abdul Rahman is formally installed as Malaysia’s new king.
1995 America’s Time Warner Inc. and Turner Broadcasting System Inc. announce a merger with a deal valued at $7.5 billion, creating the world’s largest media company.
1996 Typhoon Violet veers into the North Pacific after killing seven and setting off landslides that paralysed transportation in Japan.
1997 A bloody slaughter in the Algiers suburb of Baraki overnight, in which some 200 people are killed.
1998 Saudi Arabia expels the Afghan charge d’affaires and recalls its representative from Kabul.
1999 Dutch journalist Sander Thoenes is killed and two others assaulted in separate attacks in East Timor.
2005 Two bicycle bombs explode minutes apart in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, killing at least six people.
2008 South Africa’s ruling African National Congress names its deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe as head of state.
2011 Former Indian cricket captain Mansour Ali Khan Pataudi dies at the age of 70.
2013 Twin suicide bomb blasts at a church in Kohati Gate area of Peshawar and kills more than 75 people.
2014 Mubarak Rashid Khamis Al Mansouri has been appointed as UAE Central Bank Governor.

By Adbul Kareem

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