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A magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Russia, causing tsunamis over the Pacific Ocean.

2025

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A series of landslides occurs in Kerala, India, causing over 420 fatalities.

2024

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NASA's Mars 2020 mission was launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

2020

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Twenty killed and 150 are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India.

2014

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A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.

2012

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A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.

2012

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Marriage of Queen Elizabeth II's eldest granddaughter Zara Phillips to former rugby union footballer Mike Tindall.

2011

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The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.

2006

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An Israeli airstrike kills 28 Lebanese civilians, including 16 children.

2006

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In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.

2003

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Three years after the death of the last Pyrenean ibex, Celia, a clone of her is born only to subsequently die from lung defects. Within minutes, the Pyrenean ibex becomes the first and so-far only species to have ever gone de-extinct as well as go extinct twice.

2003

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Ian Gow, Conservative Member of Parliament, is assassinated at his home by the IRA in a car bombing after he assured the group that the British government would never surrender to them.

1990

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As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.

1981

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Vanuatu gains independence.

1980

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Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.

1980

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The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.

1978

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Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.

1975

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Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.

1974

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Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin in the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.

1971

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An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan, killing 162.

1971

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Vietnam War: U.S. president Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.

1969

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England defeats West Germany to win the FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium 4–2 after extra time.

1966

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U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

1965

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The Trans-Canada Highway, the then-longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.

1962

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A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God We Trust as the U.S. national motto.

1956

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World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.

1945

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Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.

1932

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In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup by beating Argentina.

1930

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The Black Tom explosion in New York Harbor kills four and destroys some $20,000,000 worth of military goods.

1916

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Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.

1912

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The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.

1871

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Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.

1866

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The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.

1865

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American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.

1864

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American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.

1863

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Valuev Circular banned the publication of religious, educational and training books in Ukrainian in the Russian Empire.

1863

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First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.

1859

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Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.

1811

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In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.

1756

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The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.

1733

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Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.

1729

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Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.

1676

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The Battle of Warsaw ends with a Swedish-Brandenburger victory over a larger Polish-Lithuanian force.

1656

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English Civil War: Scottish Covenanter forces under the Earl of Leven launch the Siege of Hereford, a remaining Royalist stronghold.

1645

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Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.

1635

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An earthquake kills about 5,000 people in Gargano, Italy.

1627

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In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.

1619

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Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.

1609

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Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.

1502

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First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.

1419

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The Mor Bar Sauma Monastery is destroyed by a fire.

1183

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Baghdad is founded.

762

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Election of pope Vitalian following the death of pope Eugene I in the previous month.

657

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Mark Antony wins a final cavalry battle against Octavian in the battle of Alexandria, but his infantry is defeated and the next day his fleet and troops start to desert to Octavian.

-30

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