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Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig are jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

2022

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Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.

2018

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The National Fire and Rescue Administration is founded, replacing the China Fire Services [zh] and the People's Armed Police Forestry Corps [zh] as China's primary firefighting agency.

2018

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Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 109 and injure 500+.

2015

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The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.

2010

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Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side.

2009

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Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becomes the first Malaysian in space on board Soyuz TMA-11.

2007

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Iraq War: The United States Congress approves the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.

2002

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A Lignes Aériennes Congolaises jetliner is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 41 people.

1998

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Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.

1997

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A 5.7 Mw San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing 1,500.

1986

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US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.

1985

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The 7.1 Mw El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.

1980

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The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador.

1980

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The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant began operations in Eurajoki, Satakunta, Finland.

1979

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Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.

1975

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U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.

1973

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Aeroflot Flight 773 is destroyed by a bomb over Moscow Oblast, killing 25.

1971

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Fiji becomes independent.

1970

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Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec Vice Premier Pierre Laporte is kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec.

1970

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The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.

1967

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The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites.

1964

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France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.

1963

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The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect.

1963

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U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.

1957

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The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.

1957

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The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War.

1954

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The Double Tenth Agreement is signed by the Communist Party and the Kuomintang about the future of China.

1945

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Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.

1938

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In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic Republic.

1935

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A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.

1933

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Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.

1928

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The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.

1920

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RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the largest loss of life on the Irish Sea.

1918

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U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.

1913

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The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.

1911

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The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.

1903

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The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.

1868

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Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.

1846

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In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 students.

1845

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War of 1812: The United States Revenue Marine attempts to defend the cutter Eagle from the Royal Navy.

1814

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The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.

1780

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In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname – descended from escaped slaves – gain territorial autonomy.

1760

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Over 600 Papal troops land in Ireland to support the Second Desmond Rebellion.

1580

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Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise, defeat the Protestants, capturing Philippe de Mornay among others.

1575

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The Kingdom of Hormuz recognises the sovereignty of the Portuguese king following a battle with the forces of Afonso de Albuquerque.

1507

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The crew of Christopher Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria, attempt a mutiny.

1492

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Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the help of farmers and miners, repels an attack by King Christian I of Denmark.

1471

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Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France.

732

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The Battle of Karbala marks the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali.

680

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The second church structure of Hagia Sophia was inaugurated.

415

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The Roman general Germanicus dies near Antioch. He was convinced that the mysterious illness that ended in his death was a result of poisoning by the Syrian governor Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso, whom he had ordered to leave the province.

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