1961: US President John F Kennedy asks the nation to work toward putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
1969: Parliamentary Government in Sudan is overthrown in bloodless coup and Major General Jafaar Numeiry heads new military regime.
US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair hold a White House news conference in which they acknowledge making costly mistakes in Iraq, but vow to keep troops there until the fragile new Government takes hold.
2007: North Korea fires a salvo of test missiles into its coastal waters, flexing naval muscles as South Korea launches its most advanced destroyer ever, armed with a high-tech US air defence system.
2008: Michel Suleiman is sworn in as Lebanon's president after Parliament elected him in a long-delayed vote following an 18-month political stalemate that brought the country to the brink of another civil war.
