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War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed. |
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The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance. |
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Brian Mulroney leads the Progressive Conservative Party to power in Canada in the 1984 federal election and ending 20 years of nearly uninterrupted Liberal rule. |
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The Sinai Interim Agreement concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed. |
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Thieves steal 18 paintings from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in what was at the time the largest art theft in North America. |
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Mark Spitz wins his seventh swimming gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, becoming the first Olympian to do so. Spitz swam in only seven events and set world records in each one. |
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A Boeing 727 carrying Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board. |
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Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha receives the "Robe of Faghr" (prophet Muhammads cloak) and is officially appointed as the 42nd master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi Sufi order by his father, Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha. |
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Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese. The ensuing four-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese. |
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Scotlands Forth Road Bridge, near Edinburgh, officially opens. |
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Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all on board. |
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American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis - Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock. |
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The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel. |
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The IBM RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage, was introduced. |
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The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference. |
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First appearance of the "Beetle Bailey" comic strip. |
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Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race. |
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Maiden flight of the Bristol Brabazon. |
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The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, NY. |
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Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons. |
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World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberate the Belgian city of Antwerp. |
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For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks a United States ship (the USS Greer) despite US neutrality and causing tensions to heighten. |
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World War II: Japan declares neutrality in European war. |
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Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah. |
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In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions. |
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George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film. |
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Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his remaining warriors to General Nelson Miles in Arizona. |
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Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia. |
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Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared. |
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Civil War Maryland Campaign Gen. Robert E. Lee begins his move taking the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North crossing the Potomac at Whites Ford. |
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Los Angeles, California, is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of the Little Portion) by 44 Spanish settlers. |
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The Senese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of King Manfred of Sicily, defeat the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti. |
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Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy. |
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