1951- The Anglo-Egyptian treaty on ruling Sudan cancelled.
1960- End of the Cuban missile crisis.
1991- Turkmenistan announces separation from the Soviet Union.
1998- Gerhard Schröder elected as chancellor of Germany.
2002- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva elected as president of Brazil.
2005- Riot starts in Paris after death of two Africans.
1931- Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi was born.
Independence Day in Turkmenistan.