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- Nineteen people, including 11 British soldiers and eight Arab constables are slain in Palestine as Jewish terrorists, using land mines and suitcase bombs, increase their attacks on railroad stations, trains and streetcars.
- Police and British troops arrest more than 400 Kikuyu tribesmen and women in an effort to apprehend Mau Mau cult members in Kenya. The Mau Maus reportedly murdered 37 persons in the last 5 months.
- The great Northeast blackout occurs as several US states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.
- Israeli fighter-bombers attack targets in southern Lebanon, and Lebanese government says two villages are levelled with at least 60 civilians killed.
- Up to 2 700 civilians and Soviet soldiers in a convoy are killed after a fiery collision in an Afghanistan mountain tunnel jammed with buses and trucks.
- In a letter to the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid, singer Frank Sinatra promises not to visit South Africa until apartheid is abolished.
- Mpho Mathibela, one of the two Siamese twins separated in an operation six months ago, leaves hospital for the first time. She leaves her weaker sister, Mphonyana, behind.
- Nepal adopts a new constitution, creating a democratic government; Bundesrat, the upper house of the German parliament, meets in Berlin for the first time in 31 years; Fifteen blacks are stabbed to death and four wounded in factional fight in South African eastern province of Natal.
- Some 100 000 people demonstrate in cities throughout Germany on the 54th anniversary of the Nazis' '"Night of Broken Glass" attacks against Jews.
- After a parliamentary election victory by his supporters, King Hussein says that Jordan will forge ahead in negotiating peace with Israel; Mostar's Old Bridge in Bosnia, completed in 1566 by engineers of Ottoman emperor Suleyman the Magnificent, is destroyed by Croatian forces.
- In his first visit to Israel since the peace process began, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat calls on the widow of Yitzhak Rabin to offer his condolences.
- Stung by allegations that it uses money and sex to win diplomatic backing, Taiwan says it will no longer use its wealth to fight China's diplomatic blockade.
- Israeli and Greek Orthodox authorities announce the discovery in a Byzantine church ruin of a stone on which the Virgin Mary is said to have rested on her way to Bethlehem.
- France's National Assembly votes 315-249 to approve a law granting extensive legal rights to unmarried couples, including gays. After a year of heated debate, the law will take effect after President Jacques Chirac signs it as a symbolic gesture.
- An Israeli combat helicopter drops rockets on a car carrying Palestinian militia commanders, killing one and wounding another critically. Six other people, including passers-by are injured.
- Afghanistan's ruling Taliban send a thousand more fighters to the front lines, reinforcing its troops north of Kabul as American jets range throughout the country in support of the opposition alliance.
- Faced with criticism, Nigeria's foreign minister promises that the government would block Islamic courts from carrying out stonings of women sentenced to death for sex outside marriage.
- Nigerian officials warn the United States not to try to capture ousted Liberian leader Charles Taylor, thought to be the target of $2 million bounty posted by the United States.
Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer (1818-1883); Jean Monnet, French president of European Coal and Steel Community, the precursor of the EU (1888-1979); Carl Sagan, US physicist (1934-1996); Sisqo, US singer (1978--); Pepa, US rapper (1969--).
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