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A 5.6 Mw earthquake shakes the Albanian port of Durrës. Forty-nine people are injured in the capital, Tirana.

2019

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LGBT rights activist Zak Kostopoulos is beaten to death on a busy street in Athens.

2018

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Adventist Health System agreed to pay $118.7 million to settle allegations of fraud. It was the largest a hospital network has ever paid.

2015

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Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.

2013

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Three Egyptian militants open fire on a group of Israeli soldiers in a southern Israel cross-border attack.

2012

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The Galileo spacecraft is terminated by sending it into Jupiter's atmosphere.

2003

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America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.

2001

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Ross Parker is murdered in Peterborough, England, by a gang of ten British Pakistani youths.

2001

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The 7.7-magnitude Chi-Chi earthquake strikes central Taiwan, killing 2,400 people.

1999

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St. Olaf's Church, a stone church from the 16th century in Tyrvää, Finland, is burnt down by a burglar.

1997

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The Defense of Marriage Act is passed by the United States Congress.

1996

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MIAT Flight 557 crashes near Mörön, Mongolia, killing 41 people.

1995

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Russian president Boris Yeltsin triggers a constitutional crisis when he suspends parliament and scraps the constitution.

1993

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A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-134 is shot down by a missile in the Black Sea near Sokhumi, Georgia.

1993

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Armenia gains independence from the Soviet Union.

1991

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Brunei joins the United Nations.

1984

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Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.

1981

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Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.

1981

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Malév Flight 203 crashes near Urziceni, killing 29 people.

1977

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Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C., at the order of Augusto Pinochet.

1976

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Seychelles joins the United Nations.

1976

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Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos begins authoritarian rule by declaring martial law.

1972

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Bahrain, Bhutan and Qatar join the United Nations.

1971

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Mexicana de Aviación Flight 801, a Boeing 727-100 passenger plane, crashes during a landing attempt in Mexico City, killing 27 of the 118 occupants.

1969

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The Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.

1965

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Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom, but remains in the Commonwealth.

1964

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The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's fastest bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.

1964

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Pamir, a four-masted barque, was shipwrecked and sank off the Azores during Hurricane Carrie.

1957

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Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.

1953

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The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.

1942

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The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.

1942

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The Holocaust in Poland: At the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently move from Konstantynów to Biała Podlaska.

1942

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The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.

1942

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Romanian prime minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by the Iron Guard.

1939

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The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.

1938

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J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published for the first time. (September 22 is celebrated by some fans as Hobbit Day, however.)

1937

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A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than 3,000 people.

1934

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Salvador Lutteroth establishes Mexican professional wrestling.

1933

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A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.

1921

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Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.

1898

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Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.

1896

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Taiping Rebellion: The Ever Victorious Army defeats Taiping forces at the Battle of Cixi.

1862

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Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.

1860

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The crew of schooner Ancud, led by John Williams Wilson, takes possession of the Strait of Magellan on behalf of the Chilean government.

1843

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War of 1812: British forces abandon their unsuccessful siege of Fort Erie.

1814

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British Secretary of War Lord Castlereagh and Foreign Secretary George Canning meet in a duel on Putney Heath, with Castlereagh wounding Canning in the thigh.

1809

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French Revolution: The National Convention abolishes the monarchy.

1792

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American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.

1780

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Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.

1776

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A British government army led by Sir John Cope is defeated in less than 15 minutes by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart.

1745

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The Treaty of Arras is promulgated, causing Burgundy to switch sides in the Hundred Years' War.

1435

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Livonian Crusade: The Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Caupo of Turaida are killed in the Battle of St. Matthew's Day.

1217

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Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland: The Kingdom of Dublin falls to Anglo-Norman invaders.

1170

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Emperor Avitus enters Italy with a Gallic army and consolidates his power.

455

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Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III murders his general Flavius Aetius on instigation of eunuch Heraclius and senator Petronius Maximus.

454

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