On this day in 1950, Indonesia joined the United Nations.
On this day in 1971, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
On this day in 1994, the cruise ferry MS Estonia sank in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
On this day in 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat signed the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.