1886 – Statue of Liberty inaugurated in the United States.
1940 – Italian troops invade Greece from Albania.
1962 – Soviet Union declares through Radio Moscow that its government decided to unpack the nuclear missiles installed in Cuba and take them back to the territory of the Soviet Union.
1974 – Eighth Arab summit held in Rabat decides to consider the PLO the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian Arab people.
1955 – Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft Corp, was born.
1973 – Taha Hussein, the writer, critic and Egyptian Minister passes away.
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