On this day:
1960 Senegal withdraws from the Mali Federation
1974 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed is elected fifth President of India
1993 Oslo accords negotiations conclude between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization
Born on this day:
1944 Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (1984-89), born in Bombay
1946 N.R. Narayana Murthy, Indian industrialist and co-founder (Infosys), born in Shidlaghatta, Kolar district
Gone on this day:
1915 Paul Ehrlich, German physician, Nobel Prize laureate