Today is the 266th day of 2015. There are 99 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGLIGHT

1846: The planet Neptune is discovered by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.

OTHER EVENTS

1518: During the reign of Great Britain’s King Henry VIII, the Royal College of Physicians is established to protect citizens from medical charlatans and quacks.

1817: Spain signs treaty with Britain to end slave trade.

1951: United Nations forces capture “Heartbreak Ridge” in Korea from communists forces.

1952: US Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard M Nixon delivers his “Checkers” speech on TV to refute allegations of improper campaign financing.

1956: Britain and France submit Suez Canal dispute to UN Security Council.

1973: Juan Peron is elected for his third and last presidential term in Argentina.

1978: Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat returns home to hero’s welcome after Camp David summit that resulted in agreement on framework for peace with Israel.

1992: France’s deadliest storm in 34 years kills at least 32 people.

1993: The South African Parliament approves a law giving blacks their first official say in the running of the country, authoriSing the creation of a transitional executive council before the first universal elections.

1996: A typhoon batters China’s Hainan Island, leaving at least 38 people dead and 96 missing.

1997: Armed men raid an Algerian village, shooting or stabbing to death at least 200 people and wounding 100 others.

2005: Simon Wiesenthal, who spent decades tirelessly tracking down Nazis hiding throughout the world, is laid to rest in Israel.

2006: A high-tech train that floats on powerful magnetic fields smashes into a maintenance car on an elevated test track in Germany, killing 23 people and injuring 10 — the first fatalities on a maglev train.

2007: Former President Alberto Fujimori returns to Peru to face charges of corruption and sanctioning death-squad killings, seven years after he fled the country as his government collapsed in scandal.

2008: A 22-year-old gunman opens fire at his trade school in Kauhajoki, Finland, killing 10 people before fatally shooting himself.

2011: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas takes his people’s quest for independence to the heart of world diplomacy, seeking UN recognition of Palestine and sidestepping negotiations that have foundered for nearly two decades.

2013: Kenyan forces are in the final stages of flushing out terrorists from a besieged shopping mall two days after it was seized by the Somali Islamic extremist group al-Shabab which is linked to al-Qaeda.