On this day in 1949, the United States Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty.
On this day in 1954, the Geneva Conference partitioned Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
On this day in 1970, after 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed.
On this day in 1973, in the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents killed a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.
And on this day in 2008, Ram Baran Yadav was declared the first president of Nepal.