1953- The UN Security Council passes the resolution No. 101 condemning the massacre committed by the Zionist entity in the village of Qubya in the West Bank.
1963- Jack Ruby fatally shoots the accused assassin of President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, in the garage of the Dallas Police Department.
1965-Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in Congo and changes its name to Zaire.
1989- Elias Hrawi elected as President of the Lebanese Republic.
1998-Election of General Emile Lahoud as President of Lebanon.
2008- Gunmen target two luxury hotels and a train station in the Indian city of Bombay, killing 172 people.
1632- Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza was born.
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