Today in History

September 20

1946 - The first annual Cannes film Festival opens.

1967 - The British ocean liner is launched.

1977 - Vietnam and Djibouti join the United Nations.

1989 - Indian troops declare ceasefire in Sri Lanka.

1992 - French vote in favour of Maastricht treaty.

1998 - Malaysian police arrest ousted deputy premier Anwar Ebrahim. 2001 - US President George W. Bush declares a ‘war on terror’ in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

2011 - Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani is killed by a suicide bomber at his home in Kabul.

2015 - British author Jackie Collins dies of breast cancer at 77.

2017 - 51 countries sign nuclear arms ban treaty at the UN.