
... 1987 (20 years ago today), after 3 days of meetings in Washington, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed an Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (right), in what the BBC called "a first attempt to reverse the nuclear arms race" by "reduc[ing] the size of their ground-based nuclear arsenals."
... 1945, Kellelo Justina Masafo-Guni, 1 of the 1st 11 judges of the still-new African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and before that the 1st woman ever to serve as a Justice on the High Court of Lesotho, was born in Lenibe, Lesotho.