Today is the 46th day of 2013. There are 319 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight

2008: Czech President Václav Klaus, 66, wins a second five-year term when lawmakers chose him over University of Michigan economics professor Jan Svejnar.

Other Events

1879: US President Rutherford Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.

1965: China’s Foreign Minister Chen Yi says in Beijing that peaceful coexistence with United States is out of the question.

1978: Agreement is announced in Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe, to bring blacks into key roles in government of Prime Minister Ian Smith.

1988: Austria’s President Kurt Waldheim, accused of having a Nazi past, flatly rejects widespread calls for his resignation.

1989: The last Soviet soldier leaves Afghanistan after a 10-year occupation.

1990: Britain and Argentina restore diplomatic relations, broken off during the 1982 Falkland Islands War.

1991: The South African government announces it will free all political prisoners and the African National Congress agrees to end armed struggle against apartheid.

2003: The Vatican opens sealed archives concerning its relations with Germany between 1922 and 1939, when Eugenio Pacelli — later Pope Pius XII — was the Vatican secretary of state. The archives were unsealed to address criticism that Pope Pius XII had not tried hard enough to stop Nazi Germany from killing millions of Jews during the Holocaust.

2009: President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela wins a referendum to eliminate term limits, paving the way for him to run again in 2012.

Today’s Birthdays

Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer (1564-1642); Babur, founder of Mughal dynasty in India (1483-1530); AN Whitehead, English philosopher (1861-1947); Hank Locklin, US country singer (1918-2009); Jane Seymour, English born actress (1951-); Melissa Manchester, US singer (1951-); Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons (1954-).

— AP