2001 - Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf and his host Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, began crucial summit talks in the historic city of Agra in India. Vajpayee and Musharraf, who held a one-on-one session which ran on from the scheduled 45 minutes to an hour and a half, also met last night for another round of face to face talks, without their respective aides. The two sides are reportedly working on a document that will work towards establishing nuclear risk reduction centres in both countries. Pakistani sources said that the one-on-one session lasting longer than scheduled had generated optimism. The delegations also met twice yesterday, in separate sessions apart from a working lunch.
Other important events
1822 - Turkish invasion of Greece begins.
1888 - Mount Bandai volcano in Japan erupts, destroying villages and killing 461 people.
1916 - Boeing Co (Pacific Aero) is formed by William Boeing in Seattle, Washington.
1945 - Italy declares war on Japan.
1948 - The UN Security Council orders a truce in Palestine.
1954 - The first Boeing 707 jetliner takes off from Seattle, Washington.
1958 - South Africa resumes full membership in the United Nations.
1975 - United States’ Apollo and Soviet Union’s Soyuz spacecraft blast into orbit for rendezvous in space.
1979 - Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai resigns.
1997 - Fashion designer Gianni Versace is shot dead.
1999 - China declares that it has invented its own neutron bomb.
2000 - UN troops free 233 international soldiers trapped in eastern Sierra Leone by rebel forces for more than two months.
2001 - Prime Minister Shaikh Hasina leaves her post after five years in office, longer than any other Bangladeshi leader.
2002 - A Pakistani court convicts four defendants in the kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
2004 - New Zealand freezes diplomatic ties with Israel.
2006 - Twitter, the online micro-blogging service, is publicly launched.
2007 - Human Security Act, a landmark anti-terror law, takes effect in the Philippines.
2009 - 168 passengers are killed when a Tupolev plane ploughs into a farm upon crash-landing in the Iranian city of Qazvin.
2010 - India joins a select band of elite currencies with the Indian rupee getting its unique symbol.
2012 - The Habshan-Fujairah crude oil pipe makes its first export of 500,000 barrels of crude to Pakistan.
2013 - Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, the leader of one of Mexico’s most violent and feared drug organisations, the Zetas, is captured in a city near the Texas border.
2014 - Twenty people are killed in Moscow metro derailment.
