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13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.

2018

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One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.

2016

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The 7.2 Mw Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.

2013

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the second worst percentage drop in the Dow's history.

2008

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Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.

2007

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The 6.7 Mw Kiholo Bay earthquake rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.

2006

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China launches Shenzhou 5, its first crewed space mission.

2003

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NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io.

2001

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The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.

1997

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The United States, under the Clinton administration, returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to the island.

1994

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The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator, is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.

1991

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The leaders of the Baltic States, Arnold Rüütel of Estonia, Anatolijs Gorbunovs of Latvia and Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania, signed the OSCE Final Act in Helsinki, Finland.

1991

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Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.

1990

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Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.

1989

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Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460 crashes near Conca di Crezzo, Italy, killing all 37 people on board.

1987

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A coup d'état in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President Thomas Sankara.

1987

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Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.

1979

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A coup d'état in El Salvador overthrows President Carlos Humberto Romero and begins the 12 year-long Salvadoran Civil War.

1979

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During the construction of Australia's West Gate Bridge, a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident is the country's worst industrial accident to this day.

1970

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The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.

1966

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Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.

1965

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FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.

1956

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Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.

1954

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Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes completes the synthesis of norethisterone, the basis of an early oral contraceptive.

1951

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World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after Hungary announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.

1944

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President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.

1940

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The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia Airport) is dedicated.

1939

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Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.

1932

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The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.

1928

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The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.

1923

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Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.

1910

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The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.

1888

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The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.

1878

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American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri surrenders to Confederate forces.

1864

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Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.

1815

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Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted of treason.

1793

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The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.

1783

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The Battle of Raft Swamp marks the last battle fought in North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War with a Patriot victory. It occurred four days before the British surrender at Yorktown.

1781

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Qing forces capture the island of Zhoushan. Zhu Yihai, Prince of Lu, resident of the island and regent of the Southern Ming, flees to Kinmen.

1651

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Adoption of the Gregorian calendar begins, eventually leading to near-universal adoption.

1582

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The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion.

1529

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Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris.

1211

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Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later.

1066

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