| 1991 - | The Yangtze river in China flooded, causing much damage & loss of life |
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| 1989 - | Hundreds of thousands of Siberian miners went on strike for better pay & conditions |
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| 1972 - | A ceasefire that had been in effect in Northern Ireland broke down |
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| 1967 - | Abortion was legalized in Britain |
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| 1959 - | The USS Long Beach, the first nuclear warship, was launched |
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| 1958 - | Iraq became a republic after the assassination of King Faisal II |
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| 1933 - | The German government, having given Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers, outlaws all political parties except the National Socialist, or Nazi, party. |
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| 1911 - | 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines |
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| 1909 - | Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns |
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| 1907 - | William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor of aniline dyes, died |
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| 1881 - | In Fort Sumner, New Mexico, Sheriff Pat Garrett shoots and kills the outlaw William H. Bonney, also known as Billy the Kid, who escaped from his jail three months before. |
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| 1867 - | Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite for the first time at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey, UK |
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| 1789 - | The French revolution began with the storming of the Bastille prison |
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| 1099 - | In the First Crusade, a force of European Christians conquers the walled city of Jerusalem, massacring thousands of its inhabitants. |
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