September 18, 1961Dag Hammarskjld, Secretary-General of the United Nations, is killed in a suspicious plane crash in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) as he is flying to negotiate a ceasefire in the Congo. In that same year he wins the Nobel Peace prize.

September 19, 1991Kuwait signs a military agreement with the United States, six months after the Iraqi invasion in that country. Kuwait grants America the right to build a military base in the emirat