2013 Event Scientists in the Australian state of Queensland discover three previously unknown species in a rainforest located in Cape York Peninsula: a leaf-tailed gecko, a golden-colored skink, and a boulder-dwelling frog 2013 Event China's President, Xi Jinping and South Koran President Park Geun-hye meet for four days of talks aimed at reducing tensions on the Koran Peninsula 2013 Event The People's Republic of China and the U.S. agree to work towards eliminating nuclear weapons in the Korean Peninsula 2012 Event The Baja peninsula in California handles a 6.2-magnitude earthquake, with no immediate reports of damage or injuries 2011 Event The Arab Gas Pipeline in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula is destroyed in an explosion; the line supplies gas to Jordan and Israel 2010 Event China and South Korea plan to hold defense talks in February 2011 concerning growing regional tension on the Korean Peninsula 2010 Event South Korea states that North Korea fired over 100 rounds of artillery into the Sea of Japan, signaling tension along the Korean Peninsula 1990 Event Saddam fires his army chief and threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula 1986 Event Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao 1957 Birthday Stephen Jones, born in Wirral Peninsula, England, British milliner, considered the most radical, prolific milliner of the late 20th-early 21st-century 1957 Event Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula 1956 Event Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka Peninsula (U.S.S.R.) explodes 1945 Event Orokoe peninsula Okinawa captured, with 6,000 dead 1945 Event 6th Marine division occupies Orokoe Peninsula Okinawa 1945 Event U.S. forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa 1945 Event U.S. forces conquered Motobu peninsula on Okinawa 1944 Event French Cotentin Peninsula in allied hands 1943 Event Russian troops land on Kertsj peninsula 1942 Event German troops land on Taman peninsula 1914 Event Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai 1906 Event British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
