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The Louisiana Superdome reopens after 13 months of reconstruction necessitated by Hurricane Katrina. |
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Spanish Formula One racing driver Fernando Alonso becomes the youngest FIA Formula One World Champion. |
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A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaido, Japan. |
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The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia. |
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The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland. |
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Long Kesh escape. 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of HMP Maze. The largest prison escape since WWII and in British history. |
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Sandra Day OConnor was the 102nd Justice sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the first woman to hold the office. |
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The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul. |
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PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727-214, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, California, resulting in the deaths of 144 people. |
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The rock band U2 forms at a meeting at drummer Larry Mullens home. |
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The three-man crew of the U.S. space laboratory Skylab 2 splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean after spending 59 days in orbit. |
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In the Norwegian EC referendum, 1972, the people of Norway reject membership. |
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Cease-fire between Jordan and the fedayeen ends fighting triggered by four hijackings on September 6 and 9. |
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The Peoples Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government. |
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Solomon Bandaranaike, prime minister of Sri Lanka is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day. |
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Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated through the use of United States Army troops. |
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The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded. |
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Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full Instrument Flying from take off to landing is possible. |
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The Second Battle of Champagne begins. |
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Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York. |
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Ground is broken for Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. |
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French battleship Libert explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed |
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Italy declares war on Turkey |
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In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the Remote control. |
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The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying the Grand Duke of Russia. |
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U.S. forces led by Zachary Taylor captured the Mexican city of Monterrey. |
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The first blood transfusion using human blood, as opposed to earlier attempts with animal blood, took place at Guy's Hospital in London, UK. |
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The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for moving further upriver. |
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The U.S. Congress passes twelve amendments to the United States Constitution: the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and the ten that are known as the Bill of Rights. |
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"Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick", the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time. |
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The Peace of Augsburg is signed in Augsburg by Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League. |
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Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached what would be known as the Pacific Ocean. |
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Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis. |
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The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking era. |
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On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France. |
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