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France, one of the founders of a united Europe, resoundingly rejects the European Constitution. |
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Benjamin Netanyahu is elected prime minister of Israel. |
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U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union as he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. |
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Fans die in Heysel rioting -
Thirty-nine Juventus fans are crushed during rioting at the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus in Brussels. |
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Japanese kill 26 at Tel Aviv airport -
Three Japanese gunmen open fire at Lod International Airport in Israel, killing 26 people and injuring dozens more.
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Manchester Utd win European Cup -
Manchester United become the first English club to win the European Cup beating Portuguese side Benfica by four goals to one.
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Hillary and Tenzing conquer Everest -
New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas album in history, for Decca Records in Los Angeles. |
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WW I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, DC in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945. |
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Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington's observation of a total solar eclipse in Principe and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil. |
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Ocean liner Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost |
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May coup d'etat: Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization |
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Chemist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, the ad appearing in the Atlanta Journal. |
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Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state. |
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Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec City. |
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English Restoration: Charles II (on his birthday) is restored to the throne of Great Britain |
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Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city. |
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