1821 Peru declares independence from Spain.
1866 Danish Constitution is revised to favour of the king and Upper House.
1904 Russia’s Minister of Interior Viacheslav Plehve is assassinated.
1914 First World War begins as Austria and Hungary declare war on Serbia.
1915 US forces invade Haiti.
1935 First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
1937 Japanese seize Beijing.
1945 A B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building in Yew York City, killing more than a dozen people.
1976 An earthquake in northern China kills at least 242,000 people.
1977 The 799-mile trans-Alaska pipeline goes into full operation.
1985 Alan Garcia becomes President of Peru.
1986 A car stuffed with explosives rips through densely populated residential Christian area of east Beirut, killing at least 32 and wounding 140.
1988 Indian badminton champion Syed Modi is shot dead.
1990 Alberto Fujimori takes over as Peru’s president.
1996 Ethiopian Fatuma Roba becomes the first African to win a gold medal in the women’s Olympic marathon in Atlanta.
1997 Guatemala becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
2000 Alberto Fuijimori is sworn in as Peruvian President for third five-year term.
2001 Alejandro Toledo is sworn in as President of Peru.
2002 At least 78 people are killed when an Ukrainian Airforce Sukhoi Su-27 jet smashes into crowds watching an air show in Lviv, Ukraine
2004 More than 120 people are killed in a suicide bombing and clashes as Iraq’s interim government led by Prime Minister Eyad Allawi, marked its first month in office.
2005 The Irish Republican Army guerrilla group formally announce an end to its armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland
2006 UN human rights panel urges US to shut ‘secret’ jails.
2008 Lebanese singer Suzan Tamim is found dead in her Dubai Marina apartment.
2010 An Airblue plane, a domestic flight from Karachi to Islamabad, crashes into the Margalla Hills.
2012 Saudi Arabian and Qatari women participates for the first time in the Olympics in London
2013 Lewis Hamilton wins the Hungarian Grand Prix from pole position, his first victory for Mercedes.
1995
25 killed in Kolkata building crash
At least 25 people are killed when a five-story apartment building collapses in southern Kolkata. As many as 35 people are trapped inside. The decade-old building caved in when the residents were asleep in its 10 apartments. Policemen and firemen rushed to the scene. Using shovels and their bare hands, they rescued seven people from the rubble, three of them critically injured. Later, bulldozers and cranes arrive on the scene, but they were unable to reach the building, which is on a narrow lane in a neighbourhood crowded with many new and old apartment buildings. Ashim Dasgupta, the urban development minister of West Bengal and Mayor Prasanta Chatterji, who also rushed to the apartment building, said the cause of the collapse would be investigated by a committee the government was appointing. Besides the corporation officials, about 100 fire brigade personnel, a huge contingent of city police and rapid action force and the engineers of Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation are engaged in carrying out rescue operation.
