1829- William Burt receives patented a forerunner of the typewriter.
1911- A Massive fire destroys 7,000 houses in ten neighborhoods in Istanbul.
1960- Establishment of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
2005- Bombings in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt claim the lives of 88 people.
1775- French Physician and Mathematician Étienne-Louis Malus born.
R. al-Jazaeri/ H. Said