Today in history : Antarctica sighted, anti- pope elected, morocco gain independence.

2015 - 2 female suicide bomber aged 18 and 11 blow themselves up in Kano Nigeria.

2015 - French police raid terrorist cell in Saint Denis, killing 2 including the leader of the                       Paris terror attack.

2013 - 20 people are killed after a train collides with minibus in Cairo, Egypt.

2012 - Israeli  Gaza rockets strikes kill 80 , alleged terrorist target.

2004 - Russia officially ratifies the Kyoto protocol .

2003 - Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules that the states ban on same sex                           marriages is unconstitutional.

2003 - In England, the Local Government ACT 2003, repealing controversial anti- gay          b.              amendment section 28 becomes effective.

2001 - Phillip petroleum and Conoco merge into a new company as 'Conoco Phillips' ,the                  third largest oil and natural gas company in the US.

1999 - In college station, Texas, 12 are killed and around 27 injured at Texas A&M university              when a massive bonfire under construction collapses..


1997 - Willem de Kooning painting "Two Standing women " sold for $4,182,500.

1997 - Gary Glitter  ( real name Paul Gadd) arrested by British police in child porn probe .

1993 - Pearl Jam lead  singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness.

1993 - Black and white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution.

1993 - 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador.

1991 - Muslim Shi'ites release hostages Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.

1989 - Pennsylvania is first to restrict abortion after US Supreme court gave state the right                to do so.

1987 - 31 people die in a fire at king's cross, London's busiest tube station.

1984 - The Soviet Union help deliver American wheat to during the Ethiopian famine.

1983 - Argentina announces its ability to produce enriched uranium for nuclear weapons.

1971 - Russia lands self propelled rover on moon .

1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test site.

1964 - J. Egba Hoove describes Martin Luther King Jr as "Most Notorious Liar" .

1963 - King Hassan II opens first parliament in Morocco.

1963 - Bell telephone introduces push button telephone.

1961 - "Gay Life" opens at Shubert Theater  NYC for 113 performance.

1958 - First true reservoir in Jerusalem opens.

1957 - Tunisia refuses Russia Weapons  .

1956 - Morocco gains independence.

1943 - 444 British bombers attacks Berlin.

1943 - First US ambassador to Canada , Ray Atherton, nominated .

1894 - First newspaper Sunday color comic section published.

1820 - Antarctica sighted by US Navy captain Nathaniel B . Palmer .

1738 - France and Austria sign peace treaty.

1494 - French King Charles VIII occupys Florence.

1477 - First English dated printed book " Dictes and Sayengis of the philosophers."

1210 - Pope innocent III excommunicate Roman Catholic Emperor Bottom IV.

1105 - Maginuis elected anti- Pope Silverter I.