Today is the 230th day of 2014. There are 135 days left in the year.

TODAY’S EVENTS

2000: Indigenous people belonging to a tribe believed to have been decimated 80 years ago are located in the jungles of the Amazon state of Acre in Brazil.

OTHER EVENTS

1649: Turkey’s Sultan Ibrahim is deposed, assassinated and succeeded by Mohammed IV.

1870: Western Australia is granted representative government.

1894: US Congress establishes the Bureau of Immigration.

1896: France annexes Madagascar.

1914: US President Woodrow Wilson proclaims American neutrality in World War I; Germany declares war on Russia.

1920: The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified, giving women the right to vote.

1964: South Africa is banned from participating in the Olympic Games in Tokyo for refusing to condemn apartheid.

1968: More than 100 women and children are killed when a landslide sweeps two sightseeing buses into a rain-swollen river on Honshu Island in Japan.

1976: Two US Army officers are hacked to death by axe-wielding North Korean border guards at the truce village of Panmunjom.

1977: US President Jimmy Carter’s administration denounces as illegal Israel’s decision to establish three new Jewish settlements on the West Bank.

1986: Sudanese rebel group claims responsibility for shooting down Sudan Airways passenger plane in which all 60 people aboard were killed.

1990: The death toll from Sri Lanka’s civil war is at 3,350 persons. At least 2,000 are civilians. A 13-month ceasefire in the seven-year-old conflict between the army and ethnic Tamil separatist rebels was broken in June.

1994: A powerful earthquake rips through north-west Algeria, collapsing thousands of dwellings and killing at least 150 people.

1995: Flash floods in the Marrakesh region of Morocco kill at least 73 people.

1997: Typhoon Winnie begins a sweep through Asia, killing 28 in Taiwan, then hits China, causing at least US$2.6 billion in damage and killing as many as 56 people.

1998: Congolese rebels send President Laurent Kabila’s troops fleeing as they advance to within 200 kilometres (125 miles) of the capital, now deprived of electricity.

2001: Wildfires burn 5,000 acres (2,000 hectares) in a drought-stricken Washington state. More than 93,000 acres has been destroyed across the state’s arid east side in the past week.

2002: Heads of government from Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia convened in Berlin to organise financial relief efforts after more than a week of the worst flooding that led to at least 109 deaths across Europe, and caused an estimated US$20 billion in damage.

2003: Fourteen European tourists kidnapped in late February and March by Algerian Islamic militants are freed in northern Mali.

2004: Prisoners clash with knives, sticks and rocks at a San Salvador jail, leaving at least 23 dead and two dozen injured.

2005: Security forces kill Saleh Mohammed al-Aoofi, al-Qaeda’s top leader in Saudi Arabia, and five other Islamic extremists in gunbattles in Medina in the first major anti-terror sweep since King Abdullah took the throne earlier in the month.

2006: UN and maritime agencies promise help to Lebanon to clean up an oil slick caused by Israeli bombing during month-long fighting. The spill has been described as Lebanon’s worst-ever environmental disaster.

2007: Two men hijack a Turkish passenger plane bound for Istanbul, holding several people hostage for more than four hours before surrendering, officials said.

2008: Pervez Musharraf resigns as the president of Pakistan.

2009: A terminally ill Libyan man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie airline bombing moves closer to being allowed to die outside of his Scottish prison cell when a court agrees he can drop an appeal against his conviction.

2010: The US Central Intelligence Agency opens a counter-proliferation centre to combat the spread of dangerous weapons and technology, a move that comes as Iran is on the verge of fuelling up a new nuclear power plant.

2012: The death toll of a suspected al-Qaeda attack on a Yemeni intelligence headquarters rises to 20, in the worst such attack in a year that highlights the challenges faced by the country’s new leadership as it struggles to bring security and reconcile a military with split loyalties.

2013: UN experts arrive in Damascus to begin their investigation into the purported use of chemical weapons in Syria’s civil war.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (1750-1825); Meriweather Lewis, American explorer (1774-1809); Lord John Russell,

English statesman (1792-1878); Shelley Winters, US actress (1920-2006); Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player

(1934-1972); Roman Polanski, Polish film director (1935- ); Robert Redford, US actor (1936- )

— AP