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Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country. |
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A China Airlines Airbus A-300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing 264 |
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Radioactive material was leaked from a damaged nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, Ukraine the effects could be measured thousands of miles away. |
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US President Ronald Reagan lands in China at the start of a six-day state visit, the first by an American president since 1972.
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The largest underground nuclear device ever to be tested in the US exploded in Nevada. |
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Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. |
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First American rocket lands on Moon -
The American Moon rocket Ranger IV lands on the far side of the Moon but fails to send back pictures due a technical fault.
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World War II: Battle of Bautzen - last successful German tank-offensive of the war. |
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The worst-ever mining accident in history kills 1,549 miners in an explosion at the Honkeiko Colliery, Manchuria. |
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Karl Bosch, German metallurgist and chemist, died. |
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Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe. |
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The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established. |
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Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic. |
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Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule. |
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