1995: Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the Lavalas party garner an overwhelming majority of the votes in elections. Aristide, who became Haiti's first democratically elected president in 1991, reiterated his vow to step down on February 7, 1996, when his term as president legally ends.
Other Events
1900: Proclamation of the Commonwealth of Australia as the Federal Union of the Six Colonies.
1935: Manuel Quezon is elected first President of the Philippine Commonwealth.
1939: The Soviet Union invades Poland, more than two weeks after Nazi Germany launched its assault.
1949 - Fire destroys Noronic, the largest passenger steamer on Great Lakes, at Toronto pier, in Canada, killing more than 130 people.
1957: Troops led by Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat, Thai Army Commander in Chief, seize control of the Thailand government and ousts Premier Pibul Songgram in a bloodless coup.
1963: Malaysia breaks off diplomatic relations with Indonesia because of what it describes as President Sukarno's increased hostility.
1964: US discloses development of two weapons systems capable of intercepting and destroying armed satellites circling the earth.
1970: Open warfare erupts in Jordan between King Hussein's army and Palestinian guerrillas, precipitating world crisis.
1978: Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin sign an agreement for Middle East peace at Camp David, USA.
1992: Italy joins Britain in pulling out of European exchange rate treaties.
2003: Colombian officials sign a non-extradition pact covering U.S. citizens sought by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands.
2004: Mexico's President Vicente Fox and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi sign a free trade agreement to ease Mexico's reliance on the US while encouraging Japan to move factories there.
2007: Opposition candidate Ernest Bai Koroma wins Sierra Leone's presidential run-off and vows to adopt zero tolerance on corruption.
2009: President Barack Obama abruptly cancels a long-planned missile shield for Eastern Europe on Thursday, replacing a Bush-era project that was bitterly opposed by Russia with a plan he contends will better defend against a growing threat of Iranian missiles.
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