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US President Calvin Coolidge signs Immigration law restricting immigration.

Australia claims one-third of the Antarctic Continent.

The funeral ship of Pharaoh Cheops is discovered in Egypt.

The United States and the Soviet Union sign the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT 1) curbing nuclear weapons.

Việt Nam declares its remaining troops in Cambodia would withdraw within the year after they successfully completed their mission of helping the Cambodians oust the Khmer Rouge.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard makes an unexpected personal apology to tens of thousands of Aborigines forcibly taken from their parents under a past government policy of assimilation.

The African Union replaces the 38-year-old Organisation of African Unity. The move was meant to bring political and economic integration similar to the European Union for 53 African member-nations.

President George W Bush embraces Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas as a courageous democratic reformer and bolsters his standing at home with US$50 million in assistance to improve the quality of life in Gaza.

Irish Prime Minister party, Fianna straight election win.

Bertie Ahern’s long-dominant Fail, celebrates its sixth

Two rockets hit Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut, tearing through an apartment building and peppering cars with shrapnel, a day after the Lebanese group’s leader pledged to lift President Bashar Assad to victory in Syria’s civil war.

Iraq's military says a car bomb has killed five people and wounded eight in a northwestern village near the Syrian border. The car was parked near a market in the village of Oweinat in Nineveh province, where was once held by the Islamic State group that controlled large parts of Iraq and Syria.

The Spanish government has declared 10 days of mourning for the nearly 27,000 people who have died with the novel coronavirus in Spain, the longest official mourning period in the country’s 4-decade-old democracy.

The Galápagos National Park in Ecuador confirms that a female tortoise discovered by scientists two years ago is a Fernandina Island Galápagos tortoise, following recent genetic tests performed at Yale University. Prior to this rediscovery, the species was thought to have been extinct for over a century.

Zimbabwean courts rule that the age of consent in Zimbabwe must be raised to 18.