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A mass stabbing at a school in Nantes, France, leaves one person dead and three others wounded.

2025

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A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others.

2013

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Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.

2013

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WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.

2011

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Bombings in the Egyptian resort city of Dahab kill 23 people and injure about 80.

2006

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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

2005

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The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.

2004

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In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.

1996

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A Douglas DC-3 ditches in Botany Bay after takeoff from Sydney Airport. All 25 people on board survive.

1994

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An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.

1993

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STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.

1990

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Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.

1990

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Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.

1980

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Blair Peach, a New Zealand teacher, dies after being knocked unconscious during an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a National Front election meeting in Southall, London.

1979

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China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.

1970

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The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.

1970

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Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.

1967

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Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily".

1967

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Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.

1965

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Marriage of Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.

1963

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Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.

1957

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The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.

1955

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Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

1953

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World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.

1944

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Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.

1933

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Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.

1932

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The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.

1926

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Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark (first term).

1924

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The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.

1922

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World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.

1918

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Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.

1916

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Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.

1916

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The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide.

1915

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The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.

1914

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The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.

1913

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Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop Spray.

1895

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American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.

1885

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Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

1877

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The great fire in Surat city of India causes more than 500 deaths and destruction of more than 9,000 houses.

1837

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The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".

1800

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French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Paris.

1793

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The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.

1704

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Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre-Dame de Paris.

1558

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Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.

1547

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Abbasid Caliph Al-Qahir is deposed and blinded. His nephew al-Radi suceeds him as caliph.

934

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Consecration of Pope Nicholas I following the death of Pope Benedict III earlier that month.

858

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Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy marking the end of the legendary Trojan War, given by chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria Eratosthenes, among others.

-1183

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Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).

-1479

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