H HISTORY
Death of Döông Khonâ g Lo,ä Vietnamese Buddhist, abbot of the Keo Pagoda in the northern province of Thaiù Bình. He cured a Chinese prince from a mortal disease and was awarded with an amount of large copper. He cast the metal into several big bells which he donated to various pagodas, which made him the titular deity of coppersmithery in Vietä Nam. The French open the 27km railway linking Ñaø Nanü g and Hoiä An in Vietä Nams central coast.
, a Vietnamese language daily on economics, commerce, technology and agriculture, makes its debut in Haø Noiä .
France agrees to the independence of Dahomey, Niger, Upper Volta, Ivory Coast, Chad, Central Africa and the Congo. Representatives of the Socialist Republic of Vietä Nam and the Republic of the Philippines sign a joint communique on the establishment of diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level between the two countries.
After 80 years of British rule, Kiribati, formerly the Gilbert Islands, achieves independence.
The Socialist Republic of Vietä Nam and the State of Israel establish diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level.
Germanys highest court clears the way for German forces to take part in military operations beyond the countrys borders, reversing a post-World War II strategy intended to keep the country from becoming a threat. The long-delayed International Space Stations service module is lifted off into orbit.
UN Security Council approves a resolution that grants US peacekeepers serving in UN missions immunity from prosecution by the International Criminal Court, for at least a year.
Prince Albert II of Monaco accedes to the throne of a 700-year-old dynasty, a bachelor prince coming into his own as a retiring but modern ruler.
North Korea agrees to disable its main reactor by the end of October and allow international inspections to verify its nuclear disarmament.
90-155 people are killed after an oil tanker crashes and explodes in Okogbe, Rivers State, Nigeria.
Malala Yousofzai, a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate addresses the Uninted Nations and calls on worldwide access to education. Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacù io Lula da Silva is convicted on corruption and money laundering charges in connection with the Petrobras investigation. Lula, who remains free on appeal, is sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. AP/VNS/REUTERS