** Guinean burrfish, Chilomycterus spinosus mauretanicus

** Netherlands New Guinean gulden

** AT0111 Eastern Guinean forests

** AT0114 Guinean montane forests

** AT0130 Western Guinean lowland forests

** AT1403 Guinean mangroves

** Papua New Guinean Royal Family

** New Guinean mark, the historic currency that was replaced in 1915 by the Australian pound

** New Guinean hairtail, D. novaeguineensis

** Guinean sole, Synaptura cadenati.

** Guinean Horseshoe Bat, Rhinolophus guineensis

** Afrololigo mercatoris, Guinean Thumbstall Squid

** Round 1: 50. 97 s ( 8th in heat 4, did not advance, 30th overall ) ( Papua New Guinean Record )

** Round 1: 12. 00 s ( 6th in heat 7, did not advance, 44th overall ) ( Papua New Guinean Record )

** Genus Macruromys-New Guinean rats

** Lesser Guinean devil ray, Mobula rochebrunei

** Guinean amberjack, Seriola carpenteri.

** Guinean pompano, Trachinotus maxillosus.

** Guinean weever, Trachinus armatus.

** Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights activist and Vice Chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, addresses the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention, challenging the all-white Mississippi delegation.

** 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 Australia Olympic Committee announces it will send an Olympic delegation to Moscow, despite objections by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.

** A peace delegation that includes singer-activist Joan Baez and human rights attorney Telford Taylor visit Hanoi to deliver Christmas mail to American prisoners of war ( they will be caught in the Christmas bombing of North Vietnam ).

** Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects U. S. President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as " a maneuver to deceive world opinion.

** An Egyptian delegation leaves for Moscow to ask for economic and military aid.

** Beginning of talks about prolongation of ceasefire after World War I. German delegation is against extending it for Greater Poland, but France forces them to allow this condition.

** In the Dáil, Éamon de Valera accuses the delegation to London of having ignored its instructions.

** A delegation of Roman Senators visits the new conquered territories in Iberian Peninsula so as to see what needs to be accomplished so Hispania could be incorporated into the growing empire.

** IsraAid sent a delegation of medical personnel, psychologists, and experienced search-and-rescue divers.

** The OAU meets in Accra, Ghana.

** Moot hall, a meeting or assembly building, traditionally to decide local issues

** Moot hill, a hill or mound historically used as an assembly or meeting place

** Minutes, a summary of the proceedings at a meeting

** In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the 15th century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I meet in Jerusalem.

** Yalta Conference, wartime meeting from 4 February 1945 to 11 February 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively — for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization, intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.

** The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation opens in Seattle.

** The 32-member Transitional Executive Committee holds its first meeting in Cape Town, marking the first meeting of an official government body in South Africa with Black members.

** At a meeting in Paris, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet meets with Soviet Ambassador Jakob Suritz, and suggests that a " peace front " comprising France, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Poland and Romania would deter Germany from war.

** The birth of Pentecostalism at a prayer meeting at Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas.

** WWII: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.

** The first meeting of the United Nations is held in London.

** The League of Nations, in its last meeting, transfers its mission to the United Nations and disbands itself.

** The United Nations ' first meeting in Long Island is held.

** Pope John Paul II visits Brazil ; 7 people are crushed to death in a crowd meeting him.

** Sixteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.

** In Léopoldville, 42 people are killed during food fights between the police and participants of a meeting of the Abako Party.

** Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from President Dwight D. Eisenhower for the U-2 reconnaissance plane flights over the Soviet Union, thus aborting the summit meeting scheduled for Paris in 1960.

** Cold War: Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a table at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, his way of protesting the discussion of the Soviet Union's policies toward Eastern Europe.

** In the Dominican Republic, Pope John Paul II celebrates the 500th anniversary of the meeting of 2 cultures.

** At a scientific meeting in Honolulu, Herbert Boyer and Stanley N. Cohen conceive the concept of recombinant DNA.

** World War II: In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring " living space " for the German people ( recorded in the Hossbach Memorandum ).

** Haile Selassie visits Jamaica for the first time, meeting with Rasta leaders.

** The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street during a cabinet meeting.