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Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.

2016

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Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002.

2016

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The 7.6 Mw Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.

2009

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Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper.

2005

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Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.

2000

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The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.

1999

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Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-68.

1994

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The 6.2 Mw Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.

1993

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Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

1980

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Finnair Flight 405 is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland.

1978

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Malév Flight 240 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while on approach to Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 60.

1975

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Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.

1970

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The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time.

1968

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Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.

1966

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The Flintstones, the first prime-time animated sitcom, premieres on ABC television.

1960

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The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.

1954

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The Berlin Airlift ends.

1949

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The 1947 World Series begins. It is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.

1947

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Pakistan joins the United Nations.

1947

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The Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43.

1945

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World War II: the Germans commence a counter offensive to retake the Nijmegen salient, this having been captured by the allies during Operation Market Garden.

1944

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The United States Merchant Marine Academy is dedicated by President Roosevelt.

1943

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World War II: The Babi Yar massacre comes to an end.

1941

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World War II: General Władysław Sikorski becomes prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.

1939

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NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.

1939

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Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.

1938

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The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".

1938

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American journalists Herbert R. Ekins, reporter for the New York World-Telegram, Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of The New York Times start the race to travel around the world on commercial airline flights. The race takes 18 ½ days.

1936

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The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.

1935

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The Elaine massacre in Arkansas commences.

1919

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Ukrainian War of Independence: Insurgent forces led by Nestor Makhno defeats the Central Powers at the battle of Dibrivka.

1918

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World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.

1915

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The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.

1909

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The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.

1907

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The Royal Galician Academy, the Galician language's biggest linguistic authority, is established in La Coruña, Spain.

1906

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Friedrich Nietzsche finished writing The Antichrist, with the 7 propositions Law Against Christianity, marked by him as a Day of Salvation, Day and Year 1 of a new calendar.

1895

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Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.

1888

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Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant, the Vulcan Street Plant, begins operation.

1882

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Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles, premieres in Paris.

1863

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The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place two months before his death.

1791

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France's National Constituent Assembly is dissolved, to be replaced the next day by the National Legislative Assembly.

1791

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War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, but soon have to withdraw from Sardinia.

1744

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The Lebanese Council of 1736 begins, a major turning point in the reform of the Maronite Church. In the following three days, the assembled Maronite and Latin clergy presided by Yusuf ibn Siman as-Simani discuss various reforms and elaborate rules and canons.

1736

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The Venetians under Girolamo Corner take the city of Herceg Novi from the Ottoman Empire.

1687

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A coup by the military establishment of Japan's Ōuchi clan forces their lord to commit suicide, and their city is burned.

1551

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Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance.

1541

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Suleiman the Magnificent becomes sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

1520

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Henry IV is proclaimed king of England.

1399

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Battle of Morlaix is fought in the Hundred Years' War.

1342

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A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes the Caucasus mountains in the Seljuk Empire, causing mass destruction and killing up to 300,000 people.

1139

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Election of Pope Alexander II following the death of Pope Nicholas II two months prior.

1061

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The Türgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus, and capture their baggage train.

737

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The Ostrogoths under Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time.

489

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