Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen in retaliation to preventing President Anwar el-Sadat from pursuing negotiations with Israel at the Tripoli confer.

1971

Milestone

Battle of Gazipur

Pakistani forces are defeated as India cedes Gazipur to Bangladesh.

The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Exploration Flight Test-1

Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sanaa

Westroads Mall shooting: Nineteen-year-old Robert A

Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji.

The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom

The 6.8 Mw Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing six people.

Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-108

Sri Lankan Civil War

Azerbaijan Airlines Flight A-56 crashes near Nakhchivan International Airport in Nakhchivan

The Budapest Memorandum is signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest

Leonid Kravchuk is elected the first president of Ukraine.

Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.

Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria

Battle of Gazipur

The 6.8 Mw  Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing six people.