Today in History

1913 - Bulgaria and Turkey sign a treaty settling their frontiers in Thrace.

1932 - King Ibn Saud unifies the dual kingdom of the Hejaz and Najd under the name Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

1961 - UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold dies in a mysterious plane crash in Africa.

1964 - King Constantine II of Greece marries Princess AnneMarie of Denmark.

1982 - Hundreds of Palestinians are massacred at the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.

1996 - lija Izetbegovic, narrowly defeat one of his Serb nationalist foes to become the head of a peacetime collective presidency.

2006 - The world’s first female space tourist Anousheh Ansari blasting off with two professional astronauts into orbit.

2019 - A fire at an Islamic school in Liberia has killed at least 27 children.