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The worlds estimated population reaches 6.5 billion. |
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The Swedish political party New Democracy is declared financially bankrupt. |
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Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Dr. Baruch Kappel Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors. Subsequent rioting kills 26 more Palestinians and 9 Israelis. |
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Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan |
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Gulf War: An Iraqi Scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania. |
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People Power Revolution: President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president. |
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The Suriname government ( elected after gaining independance from the Netherlands in 1975 ) was overthrown by a military coup which was initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship of the coast of the nations capital; Paramaribo |
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The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online. |
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Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet. |
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In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounces the actions of Joseph Stalin. |
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Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt. |
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The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. |
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The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends. |
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World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany. |
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February strike: First general & physical protest against Nazi anti-Jewish behaviour & -laws (Amsterdam) |
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The USS Ranger is launched, becoming the first custom-built aircraft carrier. |
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Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident. |
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Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission. |
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Glacier Bay National Monument (now Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve) is established in Alaska. |
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The diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union were established. |
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Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia. |
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Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax. |
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Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. |
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J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation. |
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Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress. |
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The first practical electric motor in the US is patented by Thomas Davenport. |
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US Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum exhibits African American slave Joice Heth. |
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Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver. |
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Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain |
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George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States. |
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Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England. |
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The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor. |
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