ALL ABOUT TODAY

1991 - The five permanent members of U.N. Security Council tell Iraq's ambassador his country must swiftly disclose extent of its nuclear program or face serious consequences.

1994 - Germany's highest court clears the way for German forces to take part in military operations beyond the country's borders, reversing a post-World War II strategy intended to keep the country from becoming a threat.

1995 - Bosnian Serbs separate men from women and children among the captured after the fall of Srebrenica and take over the U.N. base that was supposed to protect them.

1997 - Basque separatists in Spain shoot hostage Miguel Angel Blanco in the head and dump his body. The murder sets off days of protests, some of more than a million people, against separatist violence.

1998 - Three young Catholic boys burn to death in a sectarian attack in Northern Ireland.

1999 - The 52-member Organization of African Unity begins a conference in Algeria to address African problems ranging from a dlrs 220 billion debt to civil conflicts.

2000 - The long-delayed International Space Station's service module is lifted off into orbit.

2001 - Bulgaria's former king, Simeon II, is named prime minister.

2002 - U.N. Security Council approves a resolution that grants U.S. peacekeepers serving in U.N. missions immunity from prosecution by the International Criminal Court, for at least a year.

2003 - Salamat Hashim, the leader of the rebel Moro Islamic Liberation Front, dies. The group had been fighting to establish a breakaway Islamic state in the southern Philippines.

2004 - Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asks the opposition Labor Party to join his coalition - an alliance that would strongly boost chances for an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

2005 - Prince Albert II of Monaco accedes to the throne of a 700-year-old dynasty, a bachelor prince coming into his own as a retiring but modern ruler.

2006 - Dozens of attacks against police and civilians leave five people dead in Sao Paulo. Authorities suspect they were ordered by one of Brazil's most notorious organized crime groups.

2007 - French First Lady Cecilia Sarkozy visits five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death in Libya for allegedly infecting hundreds of children with HIV. The diplomatic efforts of Cecilia and husband Nicolas Sarkozy eventually win their release