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2013 Event - Plans for Euro 2020 are announced by the UEFA; the football championship is to be held in 13 cities in 13 different European countries

2013 Event - Germany, France, and nine other countries within the EU await approval from EU Finance Ministers to institute the Tobin tax, a tax on financial transactions

2012 Event - The U.S. House of Representatives votes to end the Jackson-Vanik amendment from 1974, which was intended to effect U.S. trade relations with Communist countries

2012 Event - Several European countries protest against unemployment and austerity measures; Spain and Portugal hold the largest protests, with Greece, Italy and Belgium holding smaller ones

2012 Event - The Dutch non-profit organization's Women on Waves abortion rights activist ship, which provides abortions and related medical services to women from countries with restrictive abortion laws, was blocked from entering Morocco's port of Smir

2012 Event - Vice foreign minister to Japan, Chikao Kawai, is sent to China to help improve the status of relations between the two countries

2012 Event - Ban Ki-moon, U.N. Secretary-General, urges countries to work together to reach an agreement to control international arms sales; no agreement is reached

2011 Event - Following the turmoil of the Arab Spring G8 nations pledge $40 billion to help Arab countries reconstruct and implement democracy

2011 Event - At a meeting in Nanjing, China, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the main problem in the world's monetary system is countries that inhibit the free flow of the value of their currency

2010 Event - The U.K. will increase aid to poor nations, including a 40% increase in Afghanistan, while reducing aid to 'powerhouses' like Russia, China and other eastern European countries

2010 Event - 60 countries are invited to participate in Iran's two-day nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran April 17 - 18; China says it will attend

2009 Event - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Danish hosts urged countries to agree on a new U. N. pact aimed at averting climate change and global warming

2009 Event - The 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index reports declares Somalia the most corrupt, New Zealand is least corrupt, among 180 countries

2009 Event - Concern about spreading influenza from Mexico and the United States to other countries is expressed by the WHO

2006 Death - Eileen Caddy, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries, dies at age 89 in Findhorn, Scotland

1986 Event - 35 countries signs disarmament accord in Stockholm

1985 Event - 20 countries (but not U.S.) sign United Nations treaty outlawing torture

1984 Event - Europe and 64 developing countries sign Lome III treaty

1978 Event - U.N. observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," boycotted by U.S. and about 20 other countries

1975 Event - EG signs accord of Lome with 46 developing countries

1974 Event - Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms

1961 Event - Great Britain limits immigration from Commonwealth countries

1961 Event - 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade

1960 Event - OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms

1960 Event - U.N. General Assembly admit 13 African countries and Cyprus (96 nations)

1954 Event - Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries

1951 Event - Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries (SF)

1949 Event - 18 countries recognize Republic Indonesia

1948 Event - World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries

1948 Event - Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)

1947 Event - 23 countries sign GATT agreement in Geneva

1945 Event - 45 countries convene United Nations Conference on International Organization in SF

1945 Event - Delegates of 46 countries gather in San Francisco to discuss U.N.

1942 Event - U.S. and 25 other countries sign a united declaration against the Axis

1933 Event - Financial and Economy World conference opens, 66 countries

1932 Event - Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries

1929 Birthday - John Naisbitt, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, author, public speaker, futures studies, wrote, 'Megatrends', 1982, sold over 9 million copies in 57 countries, special assistant to Lyndon B. Johnson

1927 Event - International Economic Conference (52 countries including U.S.S.R.) opens

1923 Event - United States signs friendship treaty with Central American countries

1917 Birthday - Eileen Caddy, born in Alexandria, Egypt, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries

1906 Event - T. Roosevelt is 1st President to visit other countries (P Rico and Panama)

1893 Birthday - Jan M Romein, Dutch historian, Low Countries at Sea

1797 Event - Emperor Francis I permits Jews who served in military in "Countries of Bohemian Crown" to marry non Jews

1794 Event - Congress bans U.S. vessels from supplying slaves to other countries

1582 Event - Many Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar, skip 10 days

1582 Event - Gregorian calendar introduced in Italy, other Catholic countries

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