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Asteroid 90377 Sedna is discovered. |
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Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment. |
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The US House of Representatives votes to not create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks. |
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War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul. |
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Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development. |
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A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs. |
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American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103. |
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Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile. |
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In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide. |
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After German reunification, the (extended) Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland. |
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Lech Walesa, the leader of Polands outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border. |
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Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis. |
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Spain abandons Western Sahara. |
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In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey. |
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time. |
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Mariner program: Mariner 9 reaches Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet. |
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His Holiness Shenouda III was consecrated as the 117th Patriarch of Alexandria and the See of St. Mark, the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church. |
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Southern Airlines Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team. |
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The solo album Barrett by former Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett is released. |
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Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon. |
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Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., The Monkees fourth album, is released. |
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The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as: "Day of the Colombian Woman". |
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Vietnam War: Battle of the Ia Drang begins - the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces. |
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Clutter family murdered in rural Kansas, which inspired the Truman Capote novel, In Cold Blood. |
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First regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express. |
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World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to torpedo damage from U 81 sustained on November 13. |
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World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed. |
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Kentaro Suzuki completed his ascent of Mount Iizuna |
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The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom. |
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The Communist Party of Spain is founded. |
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Czechoslovakia becomes a republic. |
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Aviation pioneer Eugene Ely performs the first take-off from a ship in Hampton Roads, VA. He took off from a makeshift deck on the light cruiser USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher. |
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The speed limit for motor vehicles in Britain was raised from 4 mph to 14 mph. |
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Pioneer woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completed the trip in seventy-two days. |
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American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnsides plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg. |
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