On this day in 1926, the Treaty of Berlin was signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledged neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
On this day in 1970, The Gambia became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President.
On this day in 1990, Gruinard Island, Scotland, was officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
And on this day in 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.