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12 French soldiers, 3 UN personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the Côte dIvoire civil war. |
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The most powerful solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded. |
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Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy becomes the first person indicted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He was eventually acquitted. |
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Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress |
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Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba, destroying crops and thousands of homes. |
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The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established. |
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Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extreme right-wing Israeli. |
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San Francisco: First conference that focusses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web. |
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Jean Chrétien takes office as Prime Minister of Canada. |
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Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. |
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A series of fires destroy 1000 homes in southern California, causing between 500 million and 1 billion USD of damage. Half of the fires turn out to be arson. |
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A China Airlines Boeing 747 overran Runway 13 at Hong Kongs Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people. |
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The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party. |
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Chief Justice Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by the electorate from the Supreme Court of California for their opposition to capital punishment. |
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Dell is founded. |
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Sandinista Front wins the elections in Nicaragua. |
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Ronald Wilson Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States of America. |
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Iran hostage crisis begins: Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). |
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Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life. |
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Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam. |
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Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the Arno rivers flood; considering also the contemporary flood of Po River in northern Italy, 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and numerous Renaissance artworks and books are destroyed. |
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Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable -- the last film for both. |
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Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country. |
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The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethovens Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II. |
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Dwight David Eisenhower is elected the thirty-fourth President of the United States of America. |
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The United States government establishes the National Security Agency. |
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T. S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
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UNESCO is founded. |
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World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein - Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat. |
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World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents. |
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Arnold Rothstein, New York Citys most notorious gambler, is shot dead over a poker game. |
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Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen return to Washington, D.C., having completed a two-year journey of 11,356 miles to all 48 states. |
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Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first female governor in the United States. |
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Calvin Coolidge is elected the twenty-ninth President of the United States of America. |
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In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamuns tomb in the Valley of the Kings. |
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Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria ( Fatherland Altar ) in Rome. |
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The Sturmabteilung or SA is formally formed by Adolf Hitler |
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Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo. |
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World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy. |
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The German Revolution begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel. |
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Sigmund Freuds The Interpretation of Dreams is published. |
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City & South London Railway: Londons first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell. |
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Menelek of Shoa obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the Ethiopian nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned emperor. |
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The first issue of the scientific journal Nature is published. |
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American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville - Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material. |
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The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University |
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Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy. |
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The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain. |
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The Erie Canal is completed with Governor DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony in New York Harbour. |
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The Teatro di San Carlo is inaugurated. |
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