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Artemis II launches, marking the first crewed deep-space mission since Apollo XVII in 1972.

2026

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The 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict begins along the Nagorno-Karabakh Line of Contact.

2016

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After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of fourteen people, including seven UN workers.

2011

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Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) of the Government of the United Kingdom is enforced, but later merged into National Crime Agency on 7 October 2013.

2006

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Google launches its Email service Gmail.

2004

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An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Chinese pilot ejected but is subsequently lost. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China and is detained.

2001

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Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.

2001

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Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.

2001

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Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.

1999

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Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.

1997

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NASCAR champion Alan Kulwicki is killed in a plane crash near the Tri-Cities Regional Airport in Blountville, Tennessee.

1993

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Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.

1989

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Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.

1986

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Singer Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father in his home in Arlington Heights, Los Angeles, California.

1984

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Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.

1979

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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.

1976

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The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.

1974

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Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.

1973

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Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre more than a thousand people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.

1971

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President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law.

1970

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A Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation Caravelle crashes near Berrechid, Morocco, killing 61.

1970

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The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing capabilities, enters service with the Royal Air Force.

1969

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The British Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry are replaced by a unified Defence Council of the United Kingdom.

1964

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The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.

1960

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The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.

1955

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United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

1954

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Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.

1949

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The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment after seven years.

1949

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Cold War: Communist forces respond to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark by attempting to force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin.

1948

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Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.

1948

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The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.

1947

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The 8.6 Mw  Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii.

1946

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The Malayan Union is established. Protests from locals led to the establishment of the Federation of Malaya two years later.

1946

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World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.

1945

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World War II: Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.

1944

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Fântâna Albă massacre: Between two hundred and two thousand Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Troops.

1941

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A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali al-Gaylani as Prime Minister.

1941

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Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.

1939

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Aden becomes a British crown colony.

1937

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The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.

1937

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India's central banking institution, the Reserve Bank of India, is formed.

1935

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The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.

1933

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Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years fortress confinement for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.

1924

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The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.

1924

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In newly formed Northern Ireland, six Catholics are murdered in the Arnon Street killings, one week after six others were killed in the McMahon killings.

1922

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The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.

1918

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The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.

1908

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Prince George becomes absolute monarch of the Cretan State.

1900

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The White Star steamer SS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.

1873

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Singapore becomes a British crown colony.

1867

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American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line during the Siege of Petersburg.

1865

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The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin.

1833

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In New York City, the United States House of Representatives achieves its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker.

1789

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J. S. Bach's later Easter Oratorio in its first version is performed at the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig on Easter Sunday.

1725

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In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.

1572

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Alexios I Komnenos overthrows the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and, after his troops spend three days extensively looting Constantinople, is formally crowned on April 4.

1081

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Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.

527

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Roman emperor Diocletian names Maximian his co-emperor ("Augustus").

285

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