1956 – The UN General Assembly passes a resolution calling upon the UK, France and Israel to immediately withdraw from Egypt after the invasion of Suez canal.
1962 – The United Nations adopts a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies.
1973 – Egypt and the US resume diplomatic relation after a 6-year break since 1967 war.
1990 – Mary Robinson became the first woman to be elected President of Ireland.
2012 – Barack Obama wins election for second term as US President with 303 electoral votes.
994 – Arab philosopher Ali Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi was born.
1867 – The Polish and French physicist and the two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie was born.
1990 – The British novelist Lawrence Durrell passed away.