Today in History

September 20

1881 - Chester A. Arthur is sworn in as the 21st president of the US.

1946 - The first annual Cannes film Festival opens.

1967 - The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched.

1981 - Belize declares independence.

1991 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev admits government has lost political control over the Soviet republics. 1996 - Murtaza Bhutto, the estranged brother of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is killed in a gun battle in Karachi.

2001 - US President George W. Bush declares a ‘war on terror’ in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

2006 - A new police

headquarter is opened in Dubai.

2008 - Czech ambassador and 53 others killed when a suicide attacker bombs

the Marriott hotel in Islamabad.