1837- The Treaty of Tafna signed by both Emir Abdelkader El Djezairi and General Thomas Robert Bugeaud.
1913-The First Balkan War ends.
1917-King Alexander ascends the Greek throne.
1935- 62 thousand people killed in an earthquake in Quetta city, Pakistan.
1958- Closing Sugamo prison of war criminals in Japan.
1967- The outbreak of a civil war in Nigeria.
1982- Spain becomes the 16th member state of the NATO.
1998- An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale hits northern Afghanistan, leaving 5 thousand people dead.
Born Today:
1574- King Charles IX of France.
1757- British Prime Minister Henry Addington.
Passed away:
2009- Former Sudanese President Jaafar Nimeiri.
2012- British Physiologist Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley.
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