On this day in 1972, the Taipei Little League baseball team won the world title.
On this day in 1991, the European Community recognized the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
And on this day in 2003, the first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convened to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.