1905- The Russian Tsar decrees establishing the Duma Council.
1934- Adolf Hitler becomes President of Germany.
1940- Italian invasion of British Somaliland during World War II.
1958- The US launches the largest nuclear submarine in the world.
1961- The Soviet Union launches a spacecraft carrying animals into orbit.
1973- France’s third atomic bomb successfully exploded.
2009- 95 people killed, 565 injured in a series of bombings in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
2010- The US troops withdraw from Iraq two weeks ahead of the deadline.
Born Today:
1848- French painter Gustave Caillebotte.
1871- American Orville Wright, who invented the world first airplane in cooperation with his brother Wilbur Wright.
Passed away:
1662- French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Blaise Pascal.
2014- Palestinian poet Samih al-Qasim.
Occasions:
– National Aviation Day in the US.
R.J/H. Said