** Effective date of Canada's first modern-day treaty – The Nisga ' a Final Agreement

** In the wake of deadly riots in January over control of the Panama Canal, the U. S. offers to negotiate a new canal treaty.

** Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ( OPCW ), CWC treaty enters into force.

** Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan to formally end the Pacific War.

** British troops withdraw from Iran according to treaty ; the Soviets do not.

** Cold War: U. S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and begin destroying their respective stocks.

** El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.

** The nuclear test ban treaty, signed on August 5, takes effect.

** The U. S. Senate accepts the British-German treaty of 1899, in which the United Kingdom renounced its claims to the American Samoa portion of the Samoan Islands.

** The United Kingdom and the United States sign a treaty for the building of a Central American shipping canal across Central America in Nicaragua.

** Libya and the Soviet Union sign a cooperation treaty.

** Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT I treaty in Moscow, as well as the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and other agreements.

** Britain, France and Russia agree to give Constantinople and the Bosporus to Russia in case of victory ( the treaty is later nullified by the Bolshevik Revolution ).

** The Indonesian and Malaysian governments declare that the Indonesian Confrontation is over ( a treaty is signed on August 11 ).

** The United States and the Soviet Union sign the START I treaty limiting strategic nuclear weapons.

** India signs a 20-year treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union.

** The Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the United States and the United Kingdom, banning nuclear weapons from outer space.

** In Lomé, Togo, the European Economic Community and 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries sign a financial and economic treaty, known as the first Lomé Convention.

** After waiting 37 years, the United States Senate approves a treaty outlawing genocide.

** Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.

** The Berne Convention, an international treaty on copyrights, is ratified by the United States.

** The Emir of Yemen and ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia conclude a peace treaty.

** Hasekura Tsunenaga visits Pope Paul V in Rome to request a trade treaty between Japan and Mexico.

** The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially enters into force.

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** Multiple-base transistor, used to amplify very low level signals in noisy environments such as the pickup of a record player or radio front ends.

** The final fighting in Croatian and Bosnian wars ends in 1995 with the success of Croatian military offensives against Serb forces and the mass exodus of Serbs from Croatia in 1995 ; Serb losses to Croat and Bosniak forces ; and finally the signing of the Dayton Agreement which internally partitioned Bosnia and Herzegovina into a Republika Srpska and a Bosniak-Croat federation.

** World War II officially ends on September 2, 1945.

** WWI ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies between 5: 12 AM and 5: 20 AM in Marshal Foch ’ s railroad car in Compiègne Forest in France.

** A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including David Koresh.

** The first mission in Biosphere 2 ends after 2 years.

** A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru, ends after government commandos storm and capture the building, rescuing 71 hostages.

** UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a general strike by trade unions ends ( the strike began on May 3 ).

** Zip to Zap, a harbinger of the Woodstock Concert, ends with the dispersal and eviction of youths and young adults at Zap, North Dakota by the National Guard.

** Hungary invades Carpatho-Ukraine ; final resistance ends on March 18.

** The Slovak-Hungarian War ends with Slovakia ceding eastern territories to Hungary.

** Meat rationing ends in Australia.

** Burma Campaign: The Battle of Kohima ends in a British victory.

** Battle of Guam: American troops land on Guam ( the battle ends August 10 ).

** The Bretton Woods Conference ends with various agreements signed.

** Turkey ends diplomatic and economic relations with Germany.

** Operation Market Garden ends in an Allied withdrawal.

** WWII: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.

** The German occupation of the Channel Islands ends with the liberation by British troops.

** WWII ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

** The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ends: Although the United States Navy suffers heavy losses, it retains control of Guadalcanal.

** Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.

** The Great Depression officially ends in the United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due to WWII-related employment, U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the Works Progress Administration