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Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.

2018

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The 8.3 Mw Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.

2003

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PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people.

1998

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NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station.

1997

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NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.

1992

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Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.

1987

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Three civilians killed by alleged supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Larnaca yacht killings.

1985

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Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.

1983

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Belize joins the United Nations.

1981

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PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing all 135 aboard Flight 182, both occupants of the Cessna, as well as seven people on the ground.

1978

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About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.

1977

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Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.

1974

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The charter establishing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is signed.

1969

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The Mozambican War of Independence against Portugal begins.

1964

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Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair.

1963

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The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.

1962

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The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.

1962

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S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon, is mortally shot by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.

1959

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Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.

1957

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TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.

1956

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The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.

1955

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World War II: Surviving elements of the British 1st Airborne Division withdraw from Arnhem via Oosterbeek.

1944

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Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.

1937

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The international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.

1926

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World War I: The end of the Battle of Megiddo, the climax of the British Army's Sinai and Palestine campaign under General Edmund Allenby.

1918

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World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.

1915

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Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.

1912

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An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.

1911

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Leonardo Torres Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino in the Bilbao Abra (Spain), guiding an electric boat from the shore with people on board, which was controlled at a distance over 2 km (1.2 mi), in what is considered to be the origin of modern wireless remote-control operation principles.

1906

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The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.

1890

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The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.

1868

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The Teton Sioux (a subdivision of the Lakota) demand one of the boats from the Lewis and Clark Expedition as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver.

1804

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Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.

1790

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The United States Congress passes twelve constitutional amendments: the ten known as the Bill of Rights, the (unratified) Congressional Apportionment Amendment, and the Congressional Compensation Amendment.

1789

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The mine of Huancavelica in the Peruvian Andes collapses, killing more than two hundred people. The event was a major setback for mercury production in the Spanish Empire.

1786

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American Revolutionary War: Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal in the Battle of Longue-Pointe during the invasion of Quebec.

1775

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American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off to join the American invasion.

1775

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Unification of Nepal

1768

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Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, is published for the first and only time.

1690

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The House of Commons of England accepts the Solemn League and Covenant, which promises religious reforms in England and Ireland in exchange for support of Scottish troops against king Charles I in the First English Civil War.

1643

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The Peace of Augsburg is signed by Emperor Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.

1555

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Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.

1513

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Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I defeats a Christian army at the Battle of Nicopolis.

1396

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England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.

1237

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In the Battle of Stamford Bridge, Harald Hardrada, the invading King of Norway, is defeated by King Harold II of England.

1066

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Basil I is crowned Byzantine emperor in the Hagia Sophia after he murdered the previous emperor Michael III in the night before.

867

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Led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate.

762

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For the last time, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor; they elect 75-year-old Marcus Claudius Tacitus.

275

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