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1807 – US Congress passes a law prohibiting the importation of African slaves.
1934 – Habib Bourguiba founds the pro-independence Neo-Dustour Party in Tunisia.
1953 – The Oscars Awards show is broadcast on television.
1969 –Concorde makes its first test flight.
1978 – Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space by Soyuz 28 spacecraft.
1992 – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan joins the United Nations.
2004 – Terrorist bombings in Karbala and al-Kazimiyah in Iraq kill more than 220 civilians and injure 1500 others.
Born today:
1931 – Last President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev.
1937 – Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Passed away:
1983 – Belgian cartoonist and inventor of Tintin comics Georges Remi, known by the pen name Hergé.
Occasions:
Independence Day of Morocco.
H. Zain/ Barry
