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The red-green coalition, led by Jens Stoltenberg, wins the Norwegian parliamentary election, taking 87 of 169 seats in the parliament. Israel completes its withdrawal of all troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip. A blackout in Los Angeles affects millions of Californians. Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Pennys Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. |
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The United Nations lifted sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. |
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Article V of the NATO agreement is invoked for only the second time (the other being in Bosnia) in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States of America. Ansett Australia, Australias first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry leaving 10000 people unemployed. |
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbars All Star Team beats the Harlem Globetrotters 91-85, ending the Globetrotters 24-year, 8,829-game winning streak. |
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Frank Eugene Corder crashes a Cessna 150 into the White Houses south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself. |
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NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board is Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space. Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Shining Path, is captured by Peruvian special forces; shortly thereafter the rest of Shining Paths leadership fell as well. |
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The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification. |
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A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, was robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros . |
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Military coup in Turkey. |
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Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale. |
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South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko is killed in police custody. |
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Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Messiah of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg. Juventude Africana Amilcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau. |
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Palestinian terrorists blow up three hijacked airliners in Jordan, continuing to hold the passengers hostage in various undisclosed locations in Amman. |
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Bonanza premiers. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color. The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon. |
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Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
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Invasion of the State of Hyderabad by the Indian Army on the day after the Pakistani leader Jinnahs death to limit damage control. It lead to genocide of nearly 40,000 Hyderabadi Muslims by the Indian Army and Hindu mobs. |
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The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath. |
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World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. |
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World War II: RMS Laconia, carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs is torpedoed off the coast of West Africa and sinks. First day of the Battle of Edsons Ridge during the Guadalcanal campaign. U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field on Guadalcanal are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army forces. Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando Otto Skorzeny. |
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Cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France. The Hercules Powder Company in Kenvil, New Jersey explodes, killing 51 people and injuring over 200. |
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Adolf Hitler demands autonomy for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. |
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Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. |
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Wilfred Rhodes ends his 1110-game first-class career by taking 5 for 95 for H.D.G. Leveson Gowers XI against the Australians. |
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Premiere performance of Gustav Mahlers 8th symphony in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers, with an orchestra of 171 players. Mahlers rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter) |
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Winston Churchill marries Clementine Hozier |
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Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar. |
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Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded. |
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The District of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada is founded. |
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The SS Central America sinks about 160 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew, including Captain William Lewis Herndon. The ship carried 13-15 tons of gold from the San Francisco Gold Rush. |
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Switzerland became a Federal state. |
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Mexican-American War: The Battle of Chapultepec begins. U.S. Army deserters in the Saint Patricks Battalion who fought alongside the Mexican army are hanged en masse for treason by the order of General Winfield Scott. |
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Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning. |
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Battle of North Point: An American detachment halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812. |
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Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna - Several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire. |
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Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River. |
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The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça, Mallorca, with the purpose of conquering the island. |
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Albigensian Crusade: Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon, the king of Aragon, at the Battle of Muret. |
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