** former Yugoslavia: Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro.

** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister, Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

** NATO launches air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

** In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) led by the United States launched air attacks against Yugoslavia ( then composed of only Serbia and Montenegro ) to pressure the Yugoslav government to end its military operations against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo due to accusations of war crimes being committed by Yugoslav military forces working alongside nationalist Serb paramilitary groups.

** 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.

** The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( which later became the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is proclaimed.

** The Corfu Declaration, which enabled the establishment of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and the Kingdom of Serbia.

** Zoran Lilić succeeds Dobrica Ćosić as President of Yugoslavia.

** The Cominform Resolution marks the beginning of the Informbiro period in Yugoslavia and the Soviet / Yugoslav split.

** Josip Broz Tito forms a government in Yugoslavia.

** The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is declared ( this day is celebrated as Republic Day until the 1990s ).

** World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.

** The United States recognizes Josip Broz Tito's government in Yugoslavia.

** An anti-Axis coup d ' état in Yugoslavia forces Prince Paul into exile ; 17-year-old King Peter II assumes power.

** The League of Communists of Yugoslavia votes to give up its monopoly on power.

** In the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Socialist Republic of Slovenia holds Yugoslavia's first multiparty election since 1938.

** In a common statement, the European Union officially recognized the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

** An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia ( now in the Republic of Macedonia ) leaves 1, 800 dead.

** Zagreb mid-air collision: A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia ( now Croatia ), killing all 176 aboard.

** The Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( without the presence of Serb political delegates ) proclaims independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

** Bosnian War: Serb troops, following a mass rebellion of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Bosnian declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, besiege the city of Sarajevo.

** 98 British tourists die in an air crash in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.

** King Alexander of Yugoslavia ( d. 1934 )

** Milovan Djilas, former vice-president of Yugoslavia, is given further sentence for publishing Conversations with Stalin.

** U. S. Senator Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for President.

** U. S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith, 66, announces her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.

** Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton announces his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination, as part of a ' stop-Goldwater ' movement.

** The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

** IBM announces a $ 4. 97 billion loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history to date.

** North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea announces that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.

** U. S. President Bill Clinton announces his ' Don't ask, don't tell ' policy regarding gays in the American military.

** The United Kingdom announces that Singapore will gain self-rule on January 1, 1958.

** Roald Amundsen in Hobart, Tasmania, announces his success in reaching the South Pole the previous December.

** Hamburg Radio announces that Hitler has died in battle, " fighting up to his last breath against Bolshevism.

** The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin.

** WWII: Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender on the radio.

** United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies.

** Cold War: The Soviet Union announces that Lithuania's declaration of independence is invalid.

** Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie announces his intention to retire at the end of the year.

** Prime Minister of India V. P. Singh announces plan to reserve 49 % of civil service jobs for lower-caste Hindus.

** Iraq announces that it has formally annexed Kuwait.

** The government of Peru announces an austerity plan that results in huge increases in the price of food and gasoline.

** President Jacques Chirac announces a " definitive end " to French nuclear testing.

** NASA announces that the Allan Hills 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, may contain evidence of primitive life-forms.

** U. S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

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

** James Callaghan announces his resignation as Leader of the British Labour Party.

** U. S. Secretary of State John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote American trade with China.