1590- Construction Works of the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican end of a total height of 133.5 meters.
1955- Warsaw Pact announced.
2004 – US forces releases 250 Iraqi detainees from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq due to abuse scandal.
2010 – Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania sign initials On a cooperative framework agreement for sharing of waters of the Nile while Egypt and Sudan rejected it.
Passed away:
1943 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian politician and Nobel-laureate.
Occasions:
Paraguay’s Independence Day.
H. Zain/ Barry