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1964: Riot erupts at football match in Lima, Peru, and 300 spectators are killed.

OTHER EVENTS

1612: Denmark takes the Swedish port of Elfsborg in the Kalmar War, and keeps it for five years while waiting for tribute from Sweden.

1822: South American rebels commanded by Antonio Jose de Sucre defeat Spanish royalists on the slopes of volcano Cerro Pichincha in Ecuador. The rebels occupy nearby Quito the following day.

1844: Samuel FB Morse transmits the message, “What hath God wrought!” from Washington to Baltimore, as he formally opens America’s first telegraph line.

1890: Italy reorganises her Red Sea territories as colony of Eritrea.

1900: Britain annexes Orange Free State in Africa.

1949: The Federal Republic of Germany comes into being in the parts of Germany occupied by the Western allies with the proclamation of its constitution.

1958: United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.

1962: London conference of Barbados, Windward and Leeward Islands ends with proposals of “Little Eight” to form new West Indies federation.

1972: United States and Soviet Union agree to put US and Soviet spacemen in orbit together by 1975.

1975: US President Gerald Ford approves two bills providing more than US$400 million for resettlement of refugees from South Vietnam and Cambodia.

1976: Britain and France open trans-Atlantic Concorde service to Washington.

1981: Ecuador’s President Jaime Roldos Aguilera is killed in plane crash in Andes Mountains near Peru border.

1984: Israel and the United States reject a United Nations proposal for an international peace conference on the Middle East.

1990: US President George Bush unconditionally renews China’s most-favoured-nation trade status with the United States for one year.

1992: Al Unser Jr becomes the first second-generation winner of the Indianapolis 500; his father, four-time winner Al Unser, finished third.

1994: Stampede kills 270 pilgrims at shrine in Mecca, Saudi Arabia; four men convicted of bombing New York’s World Trade Center in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.

1998: First multi-party vote in a region ruled by China’s Communists is held in Hong Kong. Pro-democracy parties win most of the legislature seats that were up for vote.

1999: Sonia Gandhi agrees to take back the presidency of India’s main opposition Congress Party, ending a leadership crisis.

2000: The Santiago Court of Appeals strips General Augusto Pinochet of immunity from prosecution, clearing the way for the ailing former dictator’s prosecution on human rights violations.

 2010: The security forces entered the Tivoli Gardens community after a stand-off with gunmen. The operation was to apprend Tivoli strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, who was requested for extradition by the United States Government on drug-trafficking and gunrunning charges.

Rihanna’s back with a new collection – her second of four for River Island this year – and you’ll be able to get your hands on it in a matter of weeks.

The summer collection, which features reinventions of the spring line plus loads of new designs, made its debut back in February at London Fashion Week… and you’ve been asking about it ever since.

Limited pieces from the Rihanna for River Island spring collection are available online only while stocks last – get them before they go!

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

2010: Thugs allegedly aligned to Christoper ‘Dudus’ Coke torch three police stations and attack members of the security forces in Kingston, Jamaica. The incident is regarded as the springboard for the incursion in Tivoli Gardens a day later, which resulted in the deaths of at least 73 people

OTHER EVENTS

1430: Joan of Arc is captured near Compiegne, France, by Burgundians, who sell her to the English.

1785: Benjamin Franklin creates his own pair of bifocals.

1853: Constitution of Argentine Republic goes into effect.

1873: Canada’s North West Mounted Police force is established.

1915: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, entering World War I.

1920: The Communist Party of Indonesia is formed, the first such leftist organisation to be set up in Asia outside the former Russian empire.

1926: France declares Lebanon a republic.

1934: US robber couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death in a police ambush as they drive a stolen Ford Deluxe along a road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

1939: Britain’s Parliament approves plan for independent Palestine by 1949, which later is denounced by Jews as well as Arabs, who oppose a Jewish state in Palestine.

1945: Nazi official Heinrich Himmler commits suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany.

1949: German Federal Republic comes into being with capital at Bonn.

1960: Israel announces it had captured former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

1969: Death toll in Malaysia rioting exceeds 500, with 90 per cent of casualties ethnic Chinese.

1971: An earthquake destroys the town of Bingol in eastern Turkey, killing 1,000 people.

1977: South Moluccan exiles in Netherlands take 161 hostages in elementary school in an effort to get Dutch help in their fight for independence from Indonesia.

1983: South African fighter planes rocket and strafe alleged guerrilla bases in Mozambique to retaliate for car-bomb attack near air force headquarters in Pretoria three days earlier.

1988: Hungary’s Communist Party outlines sweeping political and economic changes designed to salvage nation’s faltering economy.

1992: United States and four former Soviet republics sign agreement to implement START missile-reduction treaty.

1993: More than 1.5 million Cambodians ignore Khmer Rouge threats and vote in the country’s first free elections in more than two decades.

1994: A Scud missile slams into a densely populated neighbourhood of San’a, Yemen, as northern troops push into southern oil fields to try to take control of the country’s most valuable resource.

1995: Israel suspends plans to confiscate Arab land in east Jerusalem, acknowledging that it no longer can act at will to strengthen the Jewish hold on the city.

1996: A North Korean pilot flies his MiG-19 jet across the world’s most heavily guarded border and defects to South Korea.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Carl von Linne (Linnaeus), Swedish botanist (1707-1778); Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician (1753-1815); Rosemary Clooney, US singer (1928-2002); Joan Collins, English-born actress (1933-); Drew Carey, US comedian (1958-); Jewel, US singer (1974-).

Dunwoody police spokesman Timothy Fecht says officers arrested Cozart after responding to a call about illegal drug activity at the Le Méridien hotel just north of Atlanta Monday afternoon. Fecht says officers saw smoke and smelled marijuana wafting from a room.

The single is presently number 25 on the New York Reggae Chart; number 20 on the South Florida Reggae Chart and 18 on the Jamaica Music Countdown Reggae Chart.

The California-based artiste says the song has exceeded his expectations.

“I’m extremely humbled by the continued support of radio. My aim has always been to make a connection to fans of reggae music worldwide.”

Eljai — who worked with Jamaican producer Kemar ‘Flava’ McGregor on the song Don’t Leave — is a regular on the southern California reggae scene.

He performs today at Flavors Fest in Central Village, St Catherine. Also in the lineup are Tarrus Riley, Duane Stephenson, George Nooks and Noddy Virtue.

According to Variety, Jackson, who is one of the best-selling artists of all time, has earned $458 million thanks to her successful concert tours, $304 million from acting roles in films like “For Colored Girls” and “The Nutty Professor,” $260 million in album sales, and more than $81 million from tour sponsorships and licensing fees.

And the “Control” songstress isn’t the only billionaire in her household. Jackson secretly married retail tycoon Wissam Al Mana, who’s made his fortune investing in the Middle East.

As for fellow celeb billionaires, Jackson joins a club with members including Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, J.K. Rowling, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, whose “Seinfeld” money helped … but whose main fortune came from her dad, billionaire Gerard Louis-Dreyfus, chairman of the Louis Dreyfus Energy Services.

At least Janet can feel good about the fact she earned her billion all by herself.

Campbell was born in Streatham, South London, the daughter of Jamaican-born dancer Valerie Morris. In accordance with her mother’s wishes, Campbell has never met her father,who abandoned her mother when she was four months pregnant, and who went unnamed on her birth certificate. She took on the surname Campbell from her mother’s second marriage. Her half-brother, Pierre, was born in 1986. Campbell is of Afro-Jamaican descent, as well as of Chinese Jamaican ancestry through her paternal grandmother, who carried the family name Ming.

Today is the 142nd day of 2013. There are 223 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

 1939: Germany’s Adolf Hitler and Italy’s Benito Mussolini sign “Pact of Steel”, a 10-year political and military alliance.

OTHER EVENTS

1833: A new constitution in Chile gives greater power to the president and establishes Roman Catholicism as state religion.

1822: The US and Korea sign treaty of peace and friendship.

1840: Transportation of British convicts to New South Wales, Australia, officially ends.

1867: Canada becomes the first dominion of the British Empire, gaining a parliament, cabinet and large measure of independence.

1967: Communist-led riots take place in Hong Kong against British.

1972: The island nation of Ceylon becomes the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka with the adoption of a new constitution.

1975: White-ruled African nation of Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe, is expelled from Olympics because of its racial policies.

1990: After years of conflict, pro-Western North Yemen and pro-Soviet South Yemen merge to form the Republic of Yemen.

1991: India’s Congress Party offers party leadership to Sonia Gandhi, widow of assassinated leader Rajiv Gandhi, but she refuses, only to take it up in 1998.

1993: Cambodians vote in first multiparty elections in 21 years.

1994: Tutsi rebels capture international airport in Rwanda’s capital and overrun military base nearby.

1995: Half-a-million Poles turn out to catch a glimpse of their native son Pope John Paul II during his 10-hour visit in southern Poland.

1998: Voters in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland vote overwhelmingly for a peace agreement to end 20 years of sectarian strife.

2001: In Afghanistan, the ruling Taliban militia announces a law requiring Hindus to wear identity labels to distinguish them from Muslims. The measure also requires Hindu women to be veiled for the first time.

2005: The candidate of Mongolia’s former communist ruling party, Nambariin Enkhbayar, wins the country’s presidential election, retaining the party’s hold on power after a campaign dominated by promises to end chronic poverty in the former Soviet satellite.

2008: President Mikhail Saakashvili’s pro-Western ruling party emerges from the May 21 parliamentary election with a majority of seats — but election observers gave the vote a mixed report, and the opposition refuses to concede.

2009: Germany marks the 60th birthday of the post-World War II federal republic under which the country has become a stable and respected democracy with global political and economic clout.

2012: Opening a new, entrepreneurial era in spaceflight, a ship built by a billionaire businessman speeds toward the International Space Station with a load of groceries and other supplies after a spectacular middle-of-the-night blastoff.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Richard Wagner, German composer (1813-1883); Mary Cassatt, US Impressionist painter (1844-1926); Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, English author (1859-1930); Daniel F Malan, South African statesman, instituted apartheid (1874-1959); Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor (1907-1989); Bernard Shaw, US journalist (1940-); Naomi Campbell, British model (1970-); Bernie Taupin, songwriter (1950-).