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Hogwarts Legacy, one of the best-selling video games of all time, is first released.

2023

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The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2021

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Texas' worst energy infrastructure failure, the 2021 Texas power crisis, starts.

2021

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Nineteen people are killed and 66 injured when a Kowloon Motor Bus double decker on route 872 in Hong Kong overturns.

2018

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South Korea decides to stop the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex with North Korea in response to the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4.

2016

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Thirty-six people are killed and 39 others are injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.

2013

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The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.

2009

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Forty-three people are killed and three are injured when a Fokker 50 crashes near Sharjah International Airport.

2004

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France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.

2003

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IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.

1996

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Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.

1989

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Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5,000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre.

1984

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Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up seven emirates.

1972

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The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.

1967

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Melbourne–Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with and sinks the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, killing 82.

1964

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Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.

1962

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U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.

1954

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The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland and the Allies of World War II.

1947

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World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.

1943

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The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.

1940

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Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.

1939

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Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launch the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.

1936

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In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.

1933

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The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope of overthrowing French protectorate over Vietnam.

1930

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Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.

1923

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Józef Haller de Hallenburg performs the symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.

1920

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About 75% of the population in Zone I votes to join Denmark in the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites.

1920

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HMS Dreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships, is christened.

1906

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American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.

1862

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Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.

1861

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First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon: British defeat Sikhs in the final battle of the war.

1846

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Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

1840

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Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victory over the Russians and the Prussians.

1814

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French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.

1763

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Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos.

1712

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Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination.

1567

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Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.

1502

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Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos marries Helena Dragaš, daughter of the Serbian Prince Constantine Dragaš. She is crowned as empress the following day.

1392

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The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.

1355

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In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparking the revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence.

1306

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The Siege of Baghdad ends with the surrender of the last Abbasid caliph to Hulegu Khan, a prince of the Mongol Empire.

1258

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