Today in History

1761 - Britain’s King George

III and his wife, Charlotte, are crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1949 - The Soviet Union explodes its first atomic bomb.

1953 - The world’s first fourlevel freeway interchange opens in Long Angeles, California.

1980 - Iraqi tanks enter Iran, marking the beginning of Iran-Iraq War as a full-scale conflict.

1988 - UAE and Egypt sign an agreement setting up a joint cooperation committee. 1994 - Former diplomat Jaafar Abdul Rahman is formally installed as Malaysia’s new king.

1998 - Saudi Arabia expels the Afghan charge d’affaires and recalls its representative from Kabul.

2011 - Former Indian cricket captain Mansour Ali Khan Pataudi dies at the age of 70.

2015 - Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi fly to Aden after six months in exile in Saudi Arabia.