Syrian Arab News Agency S A N A
1920 – League of nations establishes Int’l Court of Justice in The Hague.
1974- Malta becomes a republic.
1988- Late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat delivers a speech before the UN General Assembly in Geneva.
1996- Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan elected as the United Nations Secretary General.
2003- Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein arrested in Tikrit.
1957- Lebanese singer Majeda al-Roumi was born.
1932- Egyptian poet Ahmad Shawqi, nicknamed “the prince of poets”, passes away.
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