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A mass shooting occurs in two locations in Lewiston, Maine. 18 people are killed and 13 more injured.

2023

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A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Mentawai Islands, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 400 people.

2010

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The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kill 155 and wound at least 721.

2009

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Microsoft releases Windows XP, which becomes one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.

2001

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A Learjet 35 crashes in Mina near Aberdeen, South Dakota, killing all six people on board, including PGA golfer Payne Stewart and golf course designer Bruce Borland.

1999

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After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.

1997

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A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.

1995

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The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic declares its sovereignty from the Soviet Union.

1990

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The first leg of the 1989 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira is held at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal.

1989

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The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.

1983

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Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude.

1980

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Egypt and Israel accept United Nations Security Council Resolution 339.

1973

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The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.

1971

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A Fairchild F-27 crashes into Moose Mountain while on approach to Lebanon Municipal Airport in Lebanon, New Hampshire, killing 32 people.

1968

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Soyuz 2 is launched.

1968

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Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.

1962

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The Battle of Guningtou in the Taiwan Strait begins.

1949

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Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control.

1945

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World War II: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.

1944

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World War II: The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.

1944

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World War II: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

1944

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Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.

1940

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George Lansbury became the leader of the opposition British Labour Party.

1932

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The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.

1927

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The Zinoviev letter, which Zinoviev himself denied writing, is published in the Daily Mail; the Labour party would later blame this letter for the Conservatives' landslide election win four days later.

1924

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After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.

1920

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British forces attack Turkish forces under Mustafa Kemal in the battle of Aleppo, which the British capture the following day.

1918

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Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.

1917

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The Xinhai Revolution spreads to Guangzhou, where the Qing general Fengshan is assassinated by the Chinese Assassination Corps.

1911

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B♭ minor, Op. 23 premieres in Boston, Massachusetts, with Benjamin Johnson Lang as conductor and Hans von Bülow as soloist.

1875

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The Uspenski Cathedral, designed by Aleksey Gornostayev, is inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.

1868

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The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.

1861

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The Battle of Balaclava takes place during the Crimean War. It is soon memorialized in verse as The Charge of the Light Brigade.

1854

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Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi begins.

1822

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War of 1812: The American frigate, USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur, captures the British frigate HMS Macedonian.

1812

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Golden Jubilee of George III is celebrated in Britain as he begins the fiftieth year of his reign.

1809

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King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his grandfather George II.

1760

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War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral Edward Hawke defeats the French at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre.

1747

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Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.

1616

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Hundred Years' War: Henry V of England, with his men-at-arms and archers, defeats the larger French army in the Battle of Agincourt.

1415

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Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.

1147

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Reconquista: After a siege of four months, crusader knights conquer Lisbon.

1147

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Emperor Leo I acclaims his grandson Leo II as Caesar of the East Roman Empire.

473

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