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== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
*[[1888]] - [[Jack the Ripper]] kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim. *[[1888]] - [[Jack the Ripper]] kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
-*[[1906]] - [[Theodore Roosevelt]] is the first sitting [[President of the United States]] to make an official trip outside the country (to inspect progress on the [[Panama Canal]]). 
-*[[1907]] - The [[Cullinan Diamond]] is presented to [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|King Edward VII]] on his birthday. 
-*[[1917]] - [[Stalin]] enters the provisional government of [[USSR]]. 
-*[[1918]] - Kaiser [[Wilhelm II of Germany]] abdicates after the [[German Revolution]], and [[Germany]] is proclaimed a [[Republic]]. 
-*[[1921]] - [[Albert Einstein]] awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the [[photoelectric effect]].  
-*[[1923]] - In [[Munich]], [[Germany]], police and government troops crush the [[Beer Hall Putsch]] in [[Bavaria]]. The failed [[coup]] is the work of the [[Nazis]]. 
-*[[1932]] - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in [[Switzerland]] kill 12 and injure 60. 
-*[[1935]] - The [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] is founded in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey]] by eight [[trade unions]] belonging to the [[American Federation of Labor]]. 
-*[[1937]] - Japanese troops take control of [[Shanghai]], [[China]]. 
-*[[1938]] - [[Kristallnacht]], [[Nazi Germany]]'s first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins. 
-*[[1953]] - [[Cambodia]] becomes independent from [[France]].  
-*[[1960]] - [[Robert McNamara]] is named president of [[Ford Motor Co.]], the first non-Ford to serve in that post — quitting a month later to join the newly-elected [[John F. Kennedy]] administration.  
-*[[1963]] - At [[Miike coal mine]], [[Miike District, Fukuoka|Miike]], [[Japan]], an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with [[carbon monoxide poisoning]]. A three-train disaster in [[Yokohama]], also in [[Japan]], kills more than 160 people. 
-*[[1965]] - Several [[U.S. state]]s and parts of [[Canada]] are hit by a series of [[Power outage|blackout]]s lasting up to 13 hours in the [[Northeast Blackout of 1965]]. 
-* 1965 - [[Catholic Worker]] member [[Roger Allen LaPorte]], protesting against the [[Vietnam War]], sets himself on fire in front of the [[United Nations]] building.  
-*[[1967]] - [[Apollo program]]: [[NASA]] launches the unmanned [[Apollo 4]] test spacecraft from [[Cape Kennedy]].  
-* 1967 - First issue of [[Rolling Stone]] Magazine is published.  
-* 1967 - [[France|French]] [[comic book]] heroes [[Valérian and Laureline]] make their debut in the pages of ''[[Pilote]]'' magazine. 
-*[[1970]] - Vietnam War: The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow [[Massachusetts]] to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.  
-*[[1971]] - [[John List]], an accountant from [[Westfield, New Jersey]] murders his mother, wife and three children. He then hides under a new identity for 18 years. 
-*[[1985]] - [[Garry Kasparov]] becomes the youngest world chess champion by beating [[Anatoly Karpov]]  
-*[[1989]] - [[Cold War]]: [[Communism|Communist]]-controlled [[East Germany]] opens checkpoints in the [[Berlin Wall]] allowing its citizens to freely travel to [[West Germany]]. People start demolishing the Berlin Wall.  
-*[[1990]] - New democratic constitution issued in [[Nepal]]. 
-* 1990 - [[Mary Robinson]] elected [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland's]] first woman [[President of Ireland|President]] and the first from the [[Labour Party (Ireland)|Labour Party]].  
-*[[1993]] - [[Stari most]], the "old bridge" in Bosnian [[Mostar]] built in [[1566]], collapses after several days of bombing. 
-*[[1994]] - Discovery of the [[chemical element]] [[Darmstadtium]]. 
-*[[1998]] - Brokerage houses are ordered to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated [[NASDAQ]] investors to compensate for their price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in [[United States]] history. 
-*1998 - [[Capital punishment in the United Kingdom]], already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences. 
-*[[1999]] - [[TAESA Flight 725]], went down a few minutes after leaving the Uruapan airport en-route to Mexico City. 18 people were killed in the accident 
-*[[2003]] - During the holy month of [[Ramadan]], a suicide-terrorist attack in [[Riyadh]], [[Saudi Arabia]], kills 17 people. 
-*[[2005]] - The [[Venus Express]] mission of the [[European Space Agency]] is launched from the [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]] in [[Kazakhstan]]. 
-* 2005 - [[2005 Amman bombings|Suicide bombers attacked]] three hotels in [[Amman, Jordan]], killing at least 56 people. 
-* 2005 - [[Muriel Degauque]] becomes the first [[Belgian]] [[female suicide bomber]], wounding one in Iraq. 
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