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Major floods hit parts of Slovenia.

2023

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Six hundred protesters, including opposition leader Lyubov Sobol, are arrested in an election protest in Moscow, Russia.

2019

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Twenty-three people are killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas.

2019

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Two burka-clad men kill 29 people and injure more than 80 in a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in eastern Afghanistan.

2018

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A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.

2014

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The genocide of Yazidis by ISIL begins.

2014

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Widespread rioting erupts in Karachi, Pakistan, after the assassination of a local politician, leaving at least 85 dead and at least 17 billion Pakistani rupees (US$200 million) in damage.

2010

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Former deputy director of the Chilean secret police Raúl Iturriaga is captured after having been on the run following a conviction for kidnapping.

2007

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President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

2005

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The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.

2004

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Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.

1997

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Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand opens after two-and-a-half years of construction, becoming the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at the time.

1997

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Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.

1981

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Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.

1977

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A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.

1975

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The United States Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

1972

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Niger gains independence from France.

1960

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Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.

1959

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The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.

1958

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The Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League finalize the merger that would create the National Basketball Association.

1949

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Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.

1948

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Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.

1946

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World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.

1940

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Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.

1936

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A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.

1936

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Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.

1921

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World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.

1914

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Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis fines Standard Oil of Indiana a record $29.4 million for illegal rebating to freight carriers; the conviction and fine are later reversed on appeal.

1907

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Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.

1903

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The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.

1900

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An Anglo-Eyptian army defeats a Mahdist-Sudanese army in the battle of Toski.

1889

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The American Dental Association is founded in Niagara Falls, New York.

1859

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Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard. The race is also known as the first ever American intercollegiate athletic event.

1852

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The Treaty of Lewistown is signed by the Shawnee and Seneca peoples, exchanging land in Ohio for land west of the Mississippi River.

1829

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First ascent of Jungfrau, third highest summit in the Bernese Alps by brothers Johann Rudolf and Hieronymus Meyer.

1811

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Treaty of Greenville is signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country.

1795

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The theatre La Scala in Milan is inaugurated with the première of Antonio Salieri's Europa riconosciuta.

1778

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British-Dutch forces under William III defending the city of Brussels fight an inconclusive battle at Steenkerque against a French army under the duke of Luxembourg, with both sides suffering heavy casualties.

1692

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Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built on the Great Lakes.

1678

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Thirty Years' War: The Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.

1645

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Long War: Austria captures Transylvania in the Battle of Goroszló.

1601

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The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

1527

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Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.

1492

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The city of Calais surrenders after a protracted siege to the English following the English defeat of a French relief fleet in the battle of Crotoy. It will remain in English hands for more than 200 years.

1347

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The Siege of Algeciras commences during the Spanish Reconquista.

1342

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Frederick of Lorraine elected as Pope Stephen IX.

1057

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Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.

1031

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Battle of Eisenach: An invading Hungarian force defeats an East Frankish army under Duke Burchard of Thuringia.

908

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Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu: Louis III of France defeats the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied.

881

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Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.

435

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Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bosna.

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