On this day in 1946, Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden joined the United Nations.
On this day in 1985, in Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time.
On this day in 1999, the People's Republic of China launched its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
On this day in 2013, a double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut killed 23 people and injured 160 others.