1995: Balkan leaders agree to peace The United States brokers a peace settlement for Bosnia Herzegovina in Dayton, to be enforced by 60,000 Nato troops.
1979: Mob destroys US embassy in Pakistan A mob in the Pakistani capital Islamabad burns the US Embassy to the ground in a five-hour attack in which a US marine is killed.
1985: Superpowers aim for 'safer world' The Geneva summit between the US and the Soviet Union ends in optimism but with no agreement on the "Star Wars" space defence system.
