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The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. |
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Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 56 people. |
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Muriel Degauque becomes the first Belgian female suicide bomber, wounding one in Iraq. |
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During the holy month of Ramadan, a suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people. |
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TAESA Flight 725, crashes a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident. |
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Brokerage houses are ordered to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history. |
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Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences. |
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he Montreal Screwjob takes place at Survivor Series. |
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Discovery of the chemical element, Darmstadtium. |
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Stari most, the "old bridge" in Bosnian Mostar built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing. |
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New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal. |
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Mary Robinson was elected Irelands first female President and the first from the Labour Party. |
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Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany. People start demolishing the Berlin Wall. |
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Garry Kasparov 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union. |
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John List, an accountant from Westfield, New Jersey murders his mother, wife and three children. He then hides under a new identity for 18 years. |
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Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war. |
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Swedish jazz pianist Jan Johansson is killed in a car crash on his way to a concert in a church in Jönköping, Sweden. |
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Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy, Florida. |
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First issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published. |
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French comic book heroes Valérian and Laureline make their debut in the pages of Pilote magazine. |
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Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965. |
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Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building. |
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At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. Also, in Japan, a three-train disaster occurs in Yokohama, kills more than 160 people. |
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Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he quit to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration. |
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Cambodia becomes independent from France. |
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Considered to be one of the most famous games of all time, unbeaten Army and unbeaten Notre Dame play at Yankee Stadium with a final score of 0-0. |
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Kristallnacht, Nazi Germanys first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins. |
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Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China. |
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The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor. |
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Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60. |
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In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis. |
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Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect. |
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Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic. |
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Josef Stalin enters the provisional government of the USSR. |
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The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday. |
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Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal. |
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Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim. |
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The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. |
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The Great Boston Fire of 1872. |
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Tokugawa Shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration. |
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American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed. |
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The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto. |
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Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape. |
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Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna. |
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Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup détat of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government). |
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Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet. |
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Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville. |
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Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia. |
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The Glorious Revolution: William of Orange captures Exeter. |
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The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to Great Britain. |
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