** The Knight in the Panther Skin ( Georgian ) by Shota Rustaveli

** Georgian people

** Georgian language

** Georgian alphabet

** Georgian cuisine

** Georgian architecture

** List of Georgian kings

** The Hundred Thousand Martyrs of Tbilisi ( Georgian Orthodox Church )

** Katie Melua, Georgian singer

** Tigran Petrosian, Georgian chess player ( b. 1929 )

** Revaz Dogonadze, Georgian physicist ( d. 1985 )

** Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian writer and saint of the Georgian Orthodox Church ( b. 1837 )

** Soviet Armed Forces suppresses mass demonstrations in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.

** Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer

** Sofiko Chiaureli, Georgian actress ( d. 2008 )

** Nana Ioseliani, Georgian chess player

** Shota Arveladze, Georgian football player

** Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer

** Georgian demonstrators are massacred by Red Army soldiers in Tbilisi's central square during a peaceful rally ; 20 citizens are killed, many injured.

** Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian Romantic poet and military figure ( b. 1786 )

** Georgian: კაცი k ' aci " man " ( singular ) – კაცები k ' ac < u > eb </ u > i " men " ( where-i is the nominative case marker )

** The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia and the chief of the Georgian Orthodox Church in Georgia, recognized as a Catholicate ( Patriarchate ) in 1008

** Horton House, designed by Cobb in the Georgian style, and built by James Reid of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia was opened in 1915 as Horton Academy.

** National Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from United Kingdom in 1979.

** ISO 3166-1 numeric – three-digit country codes which are identical to those developed and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division, with the advantage of script ( writing system ) independence, and hence useful for people or systems using non-Latin scripts.

** Djibouti receives its independence from France.

** Ten-Day War ( 1991 ) – a brief military conflict between Slovenian TO ( Slovenian Territorial Defence ) and the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) following Slovenia's declaration of independence.

** Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 – 1995 ) – the war fought in hegh town Croatia between the Croatian government, having declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and both the Yugoslav People's Army ( JNA ) and Serb forces, who established the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina ( RSK ) within Croatia.

** Belarus declares independence.

** Czechoslovakia declares its independence from Austria-Hungary.

** The Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen is granted independence from the Ottoman Empire by the Armistice of Mudros.

** Ruthenia in eastern Czechoslovakia declares a brief independence.

** Poland declares its independence from Russia.

** Poland regains independence after 123 years of partitions.

** Hungary declares independence from Austria.

** Iceland regains independence, yet remains in personal union with the King of Denmark, who also becomes the King of Iceland until 1944.

** Finland officially declares independence from Russia.

** Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.

** Eritrea: Eritrean independence was declared as a result of a referendum held with UN verification.

** Burundian presidential election, 1993: The first multiparty elections in Burundi since the country's independence lead to the election of Melchior Ndadaye, leader of the Front for Democracy in Burundi.

** Mahatma Gandhi, Leader of Indian independence movement, ( assassinated ) ( b. 1869 )

** Hitler advises Jozef Tiso to declare Slovakia's independence in order to prevent its partition by Hungary and Poland.

** WWII: Korea gains independence following Japan's surrender.

** Indonesian nationalists Soekarno and Mohammad Hatta declare the independence of the Republic of Indonesia, with Soekarno as president.

** Lebanon gains independence from France.

** After over 381 years of Western dominance, the Philippines attains full independence.

** Cold War: Soviet troops occupy Baku, Azerbaijan, under the state of emergency decree issued by Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev and kill over 130 and wound over 700 protesters for national independence.

** Cold War: Lithuania declares independence from the Soviet Union with the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.