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The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020

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In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.

2019

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US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 crashes at Tribhuvan International Airport in Katmandu, killing 51 and injuring 20.

2018

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A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.

2014

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A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

2011

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Financier Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history.

2009

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In Mahmoudiyah, Iraq, 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi is raped and murdered by five American soldiers of the 502nd Infantry Regiment, who also murder both of her parents and her sister.

2006

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President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly, the first such impeachment in the nation's history.

2004

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Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.

2003

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The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

2003

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Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.

1999

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Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more.

1993

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North Korea announces that it will withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.

1993

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Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

1992

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Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the World Wide Web.

1989

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The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.

1971

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Mauritius gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1968

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Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.

1967

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The Llandow air disaster kills 80 people when the aircraft they are travelling in crashes near Sigingstone, Wales. At the time this was the world's deadliest air disaster.

1950

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Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.

1947

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The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Empire of Japan in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.

1942

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Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.

1940

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The most destructive train accident in Finnish history kills 39 and injures 69 people in Turenki, Janakkala.

1940

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Anschluss: German troops occupy and annex Austria.

1938

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Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".

1933

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Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile (320 km) march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.

1930

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In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.

1928

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The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.

1920

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Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713.

1918

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The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra.

1913

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The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.

1912

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Paddle steamer Brother Jonathan docks in Fort Victoria (now Victoria, British Columbia), carrying smallpox-infected passengers from San Francisco. The ensuing epidemic killed an estimated two-thirds of First Nations in the province of British Columbia.

1862

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Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delays the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.

1811

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James II of England lands at Kinsale, starting the Williamite War in Ireland.

1689

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Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.

1622

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Start of the Siege of Maastricht, part of the Eighty Years' War.

1579

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Konrad von Wallenrode is elected the 24th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (date is O.S.).

1391

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German city Munich (München) is first mentioned as forum apud Munichen in the Augsburg arbitration by Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich I.

1158

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Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Catholic Church. He is best known for initiating the Crusades.

1088

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Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths, ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.

538

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