Damascus, SANA-
1641- Abel Tasman discovers New Zealand.
1894-The Japanese forces invade Korea.
1937-George VI becomes king of England.
1947- Announcing the constitution of West Germany.
1949- Declaring the independence of Magnolia.
1951- The US tests a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean.
2002-Former US President Jimmy Carter visits Cuba to become the first US president to visit the country since Cuban President Fidel Castro came to power in 1959.
2010- An Airbus A-330 operated by the Libyan Airways crashes, and 103 people killed with a nine-year- old Dutch boy as a sole survivor.
Born Today:
1496- King Gustav I of Sweden.
1895- US Chemist William Francis Giauque.
1910- British Chemist Dorothy Mary Hodgkin.
Passed Away:
1382- Queen Joanna I “Italian: Giovanna” of Naples.
1970- German-born, American psychologist Erik Erikson.
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