1609- Christopher Columbus makes his fifth and last trip across the Atlantic Ocean.
1798- The French campaign on Egypt under the leadership of Napoleon Bonaparte departs Toulon port heading for Egypt.
1967- The US warplanes bomb the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi for the first time during the war waged by the US against Vietnam.
2004- Trial of the US soldiers who committed grave human rights violations against Iraqi prisoners started.
Born Today:
1890- President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) Ho Chi Minh.
1914- Max Berots, a British chemist holds a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962.
Passed away:
2009- US Biochemist Robert F. Furchgott.
Student Day in Algeria
R. al-Jazaeri/ Barry