1931 – Spanish Government agrees on granting suffrage to women.
1949 – Founding of the People’s Republic of China by Mao Zedong.
1969 – Concorde completes its first supersonic flight.
1977- US and Soviet Union call on Israel to withdraw from the Arab territories it occupied in 1967.
1985 – Israeli warplanes shell Palestine Liberation Organization’s headquarters in the Tunisian coastal city of Hamam, claiming 68 lives.
1988 – Election of Mikhail Gorbachev as president of the Soviet Union.
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