1778- Capt. James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands).
1863 – Ismail Pasha becomes ruler of Egypt after the death of his uncle, Mohammed Said Pasha.
1919- Paris 1st Peace Conference opened in Versailles, France.
1952-The popular revolution against the French occupation of Tunisia begins; the French authorities arrest Habib Bourguiba.
2002 -The civil war in Sierra Leone ends.
Born today:
1970 – Syrian actor Abdul-Monem Amairi.
Passes away:
1936 -Russian writer Maxim Gorky.
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