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A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.

2015

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NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

2012

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War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.

2011

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Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.

2010

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A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

2008

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Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.

2001

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Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam, killing 229 of the 254 people on board.

1997

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NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

1996

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Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet.

1991

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Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.

1991

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Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

1990

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A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

1986

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US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

1965

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Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

1962

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Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.

1960

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Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy, outlawing the Communist Party of Chile and banning 26,650 persons from the electoral lists, is repealed in Chile.

1958

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After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.

1956

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World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.

1945

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Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress.

1942

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Estonia is annexed by the Soviet Union.

1940

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Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

1926

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First public screening using the Vitaphone process

1926

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World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.

1917

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World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.

1915

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World War I: U-boat campaign: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

1914

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World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.

1914

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Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.

1901

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At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

1890

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Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a German victory.

1870

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Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive German victory.

1870

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American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSS Arkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

1862

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Britain imposes the Lagos Treaty of Cession to suppress slavery in what is now Nigeria.

1861

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The Bolivian Declaration of Independence is proclaimed.

1825

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Peruvian War of Independence: Patriot forces led by Simón Bolívar defeat the Spanish Royalist army in the Battle of Junín.

1824

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Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.

1819

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Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares the moribund empire to be dissolved, although he retains power in the Austrian Empire.

1806

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Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1787

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American Revolutionary War: The bloody Battle of Oriskany prevents American relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix.

1777

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The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.

1661

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Toyotomi Hideyoshi is officially appointed kampaku (Imperial Regent).

1585

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Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.

1538

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The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.

1284

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Antipope Constantine II is deposed and blinded by the Lombard troops of primicerius Christopher.

768

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The Umayyad forces suffer a decisive defeat against the pro-Alid forces under Ibrahim ibn al-Ashtar in the battle of Khazir.

686

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Pope Sixtus II is arrested while celebrating mass and then beheaded with several of his deacons.

258

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