May 30th, Spain becomes the 16th member state of the NATO

1837- The Treaty of Tafna signed by both Emir Abdelkader El Djezairi and General Thomas Robert Bugeaud.

1913-The First Balkan War ends.

1917-King Alexander ascends the Greek throne.

1935- 62 thousand people killed in an earthquake in Quetta city, Pakistan.

1958- Closing Sugamo prison of war criminals in Japan.

1967- The outbreak of a civil war in Nigeria.

1982- Spain becomes the 16th member state of the NATO.

1998- An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale hits northern Afghanistan, leaving 5 thousand people dead.

Born Today:

1574- King Charles IX of France.

1757- British Prime Minister Henry Addington.
Passed away:

2009- Former Sudanese President Jaafar Nimeiri.

2012- British Physiologist Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley.
R. al-Jazaeri/Mazen

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