1964 -- Kenneth Kaunda was sworn in as Northern Rhodesia's first prime minister. The country became Zambia.

1972 -- In Brussels, the treaty of accession to the EEC was signed by Britain, Denmark and Ireland, effective January 1, 1973.

1973 -- A Royal Jordanian airlines Boeing 707, bringing Muslim pilgrims back from Mecca, burst into flames on landing at Kano Airport in Nigeria, killing 176 people.

1973 -- Lyndon B. Johnson, Democratic U.S. president from 1963-69, died.

1980 -- Dissident Soviet physicist Dr. Andrei Sakharov was arrested, stripped of his honors and exiled to Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, from Moscow.

1990 -- The Yugoslav Communist Party renounced its monopoly on power after 45 years of unchallenged rule.

2000 -- Ecuador vice president Gustavo Noboa took over the presidency with backing from the military after president Jamil Mahuad was deposed in a coup the previous day.