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Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Dubayy in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport join together and riot, causing $1M in damage. |
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Red Lake High School massacre: Jeff Weise shoots and kills seven people at Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Minnesota before committing suicide. Weise had priorly killed his grandfather and his grandfathers girlfriend. |
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In Malaysia, the 11th Federal and State elections are held, returning the ruling coalition Barisan Nasional to power with an increased majority. |
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In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. |
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British schoolgirl Amanda Dowler is abducted in broad daylight on her way home from Heathside School in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. |
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Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. |
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Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule. |
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Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling. |
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Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research. |
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US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. |
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On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who Shot JR?" |
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The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto. |
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Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABCs Wide World of Sports. |
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In Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dana wins the fifteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland singing "All Kinds of Everything". |
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Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah. |
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Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes. |
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Martin Luther King Jr leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. |
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In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho letà" ("Im not old enough"). |
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Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes. |
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Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180. |
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Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio. |
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World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma. |
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Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops. |
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Paul Reynaud becomes Prime Minister of France. |
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Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-yr-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed PR Governor, Blanton C. Winship. |
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Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means Land of the Aryans. |
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Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi Germany concentration camp, is completed. |
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Charles Lindbergh is presented the Medal of Honor for his first trans-Atlantic flight. |
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The Chinese High School is established in Singapore by Tan Kah Kee. |
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World War I: Second Battle of the Somme begins. |
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Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio. |
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Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire. |
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Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone. |
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Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated |
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An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000. |
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The Norwegian city of Hamar is reestablished by royal decree. |
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The Baháí calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Baháí calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Baháí Faith as the Baháí New Year or Náw-Rúz. |
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The original date predicted by William Miller for the return of Christ. |
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First revolutionary act in Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta, Greek War of Independence. |
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Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law. |
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The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt. |
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With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché. |
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A fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans and leaves most of the town in ruins. |
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In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake. |
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Henry V becomes King of England. |
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Accession to the throne of Japan by emperor Antoku. |
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Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid. |
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Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem. |
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