| 1920 | French forces occupy Damascus,Syria. |
| 1934 | Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is assassinated in an unsuccessful Nazi coup attempt in Austria. |
| 1957 | Tunisia becomes independent from France. |
| 1963 | United States,Soviet Union and Britain conclude treaty prohibiting nuclear testing in atmosphere, Space or under water. |
| 1978 | The world's first test tube baby,Louise Brown,is Born in Britain. |
| 1984 | Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first Woman to walk in space. |
| 1994 | Jordan and Israel seal the End of a 46 year State of war. |
| 1998 | Saudi Arabia and Yemen reach an agreement on the principles of a solution to a border conflict. |
| 2000 | Concorde crash kills 113 in Pairs. An Air France Concorde spouting a trail of flames nearly as long as the sleek supersonic jet Itself slammed Into a hotel northeast of Paris,Killing 113 people in an inferno which ended the Exclusive airliner's perfect 31- year safety record. |