** Askja ( Iceland )

** Grímsvötn ( Iceland )

** Katla ( Iceland )

** Krafla ( Iceland )

** Bun Day ( Iceland )

** Geology of Iceland

** Presidents of Iceland

** Prime Ministers of Iceland

** Ólafur Thors, Prime Minister of Iceland ( b. 1892 )

** Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, " Miss Iceland ", crowned Miss World in 2005

** Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland

** Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.

** WWII: American forces take over the defense of Iceland from the British.

** WWII: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.

** Cod War: British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home says that Royal Navy ships will be stationed to protect British trawlers off Iceland.

** The volcano Hekla erupts on Iceland

** Iceland is invaded by the United Kingdom.

** Ólafur Jóhannesson forms a government in Iceland.

** Lutheranism is forcibly introduced into Iceland, despite the opposition of Bishop Jón Arason.

** Aurora Borealis Video Gallery-Northern lights videos Iceland.

** Whooper Swan, Cygnus cygnus breeds in Iceland and subarctic Europe and Asia, migrating to temperate Europe and Asia in winter

** In Iceland, the traditional topping is either rhubarb or blueberry jam with whipped cream on top.

** Cuba, former name of Iceland, California

** Poland regains independence after 123 years of partitions.

** Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers ( France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union ) relinquish all remaining rights.

** Bulgaria regains its independence from the Ottoman Empire.

** East of the River Thurso the road regains its own identity and is there linked south by the A9 to the A836 itself near Tain, and to Inverness, Perth and Falkirk.

** 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.

** Hungary declares independence from Austria.

** 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.