North and South Korean Leaders Meet for First Time
South Korean President Kim Dae Jung met North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang for the first-ever inter-Korean summit after 55 years of division. The meeting produced agreements on family reunions and economic cooperation that earned Kim Dae Jung the Nobel Peace Prize, though most of the summit's promises went unfulfilled as North Korea resumed its nuclear program.
June 13, 2000
26 years ago
Key Figures & Places
What Else Happened on June 13
Two emperors who hated each other agreed on exactly one thing. Constantine and Licinius met in Milan in February 313, sealed a political marriage, and hammered …
en la biblioteca del Monasterio de San Millán de Yuso, un escribiente anónimo termina de escribir las Glosas emilianenses, que tradicionalmente se consideran el…
en Palestina ―en el marco de la Primera Cruzada (1096‑1099)― los cruzados del papa Urbano II realizan el primer asalto fallido contra la ciudad de Jerusalén.
en el norte de las islas británicas, Alejandro III de Escocia es coronado Señor de Escocia.
el Tratado de Paz de Rostock, concluido entre varias ciudades y príncipes hanseáticos, provoca un auge económico en Wismar y otras ciudades del mar Báltico.
He left home at 21 thinking he'd be back in a year. Ibn Battuta never returned. What started as a hajj to Mecca stretched into 75,000 miles across 44 modern cou…
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