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German-born Pope Benedict XVI visits Auschwitz to conclude his pilgrimage to Poland |
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The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become prime minister of Iraq's interim government |
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Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct |
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NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance. |
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In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's newly-restored masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display |
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World fury at Pakistan's nuclear tests -
Pakistan explodes five underground nuclear devices in response to India's recent nuclear tests.
Comic actor Phil Hartman of Saturday Night Live is shot to death at his home in Encino, California, by his wife, Brynn Hartman, who then kills herself |
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U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, James McDougal and Susan McDougal, and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud |
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The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, ⅔ of total population |
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Strikes topple NI power-sharing body -
Northern Ireland's first power-sharing assembly collapses after its leader Brian Faulkner steps down faced with rising opposition. |
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Sir Francis Chichester sails home -
Sir Francis Chichester arrives in Plymouth tonight in his yacht, Gipsy Moth IV, after completing his voyage around the world. |
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Monkeys survive space mission -
Two monkeys become the first living creatures to survive a space flight. |
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Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous). |
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The Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer declares the marriage of King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn valid |
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A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated. |
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