1789 – French National Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
1944 – Terrorist Jewish Stern gang assassinates Lord Moyne, the British Minister Resident in the Middle East.
1944 – French physician and Nobel-Laureate Alexis Carrel passes away.
1956 – The French and British forces occupy Egyptian cities of Port Said (Bur Said) and Būr Fuʾād (Port Fuad) during the war on Egypt.
1989 – Lebanese Parliament endorses Taif Agreement which ais at ending the civil war in Lebanon.
2009 – UN General Assembly adopts a resolution on undertaking independent, credible investigations into accusations reported by Goldstone Report’s on Israeli war crimes committed during the war on Gaza.
- Zain/