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The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the British FBI, is created in the United Kingdom. |
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The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so. |
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An EP-3E United States Navy plane collides with a Chinese Peoples Liberation Army fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, Peoples Republic of China and is detained. See Hainan Island incident. |
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Former president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Miloševic surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on charges of war crimes. |
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Same-sex marriage comes into force in the Netherlands, which is the first country to allow it. |
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Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories. |
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The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia was created. |
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Margaret Thatchers new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the poll tax), was introduced in Scotland. |
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Daylight saving time is introduced in the USSR. |
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New York Citys Transit Worker Union 100 goes on strike, lasting 11 days. |
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Irans government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the Shah officially. |
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Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, was converted to Polytechnic University of the Philippines. |
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Apple Computer is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. |
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Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the northeastern U.S.. |
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In the United Kingdom, the Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being. |
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Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India. |
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President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring surgeon generals warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States starting on January 1, 1971. |
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The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the RAF. |
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The United States Department of Transportation begins operation. |
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The Soap Opera General Hospital debuted |
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The EOKA rebellion starts in Cyprus, aiming at the islands independence from the United Kingdom. |
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. |
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Chinese Civil War: Communist Party of China hold unsuccessful peace talks with the Kuomintang in Beijing, after three years of fighting. |
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The twenty-six counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland. |
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Cold War: Berlin Airlift - Military forces, under direction of the Soviet-controlled government in East Germany, set-up a land blockade of West Berlin. |
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Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark. |
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Aleutian Island earthquake: A 7.8 magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands creates a tsunami that strikes the Hawaiian Islands killing 159 (mostly in Hilo, Hawaii). |
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Formation of the Malayan Union. |
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World War II: Operation Iceberg - United States troops land on Okinawa in the last campaign of the war. |
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Accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen. The bombers were lost. |
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The Blockade Runner Badge for German navy is instituted. |
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Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announced the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrendered. |
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Aden becomes a British crown colony. |
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Orissa Formation of the Indian state orissa(1936), formerly known as UTKAL. |
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The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in the series of anti-Semitic acts that will be known as the Holocaust. |
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Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch." However, he spends only nine months in jail, during which he writes the book Mein Kampf. |
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First revenue flight for Belgiums Sabena Airlines |
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The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed. |
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The Royal Flying Corps is replaced by the Royal Air Force. |
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The Greek athlete Konstantinos Tsiklitiras breaks the world record in standing long jump jumping 3.47 meters. |
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The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois. |
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The British steamer SS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547. |
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Singapore becomes a British crown colony. |
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American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks - In Siege of Petersburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive. |
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Herman Melville publishes The Confidence-Man. |
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Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words. |
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Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine. |
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In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker. |
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In the Eighty Years War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic. |
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Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark. |
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