2006
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Peugeot produces its last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in Coventry, formerly a major centre of the British motor industry.
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2005
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The Young Turks (talk show), a liberal talk show, begins airing.
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Gebran Tueni, Lebanese journalist and politician, is assassinated.
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2000
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1991
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1988
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The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains – one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.
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1985
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1984
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Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya becomes the third president of Mauritania after a coup d'état against Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla while the latter was attending a summit.
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1982
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Women's peace protest at Greenham Common
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1979
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A major earthquake and tsunami kill 259 people in Colombia.
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Rhodesia changes its name to Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.
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President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers ''Nishan-e-Imtiaz'' on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam.
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Coup d'état of December Twelfth: South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung Hee.
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1969
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''Strategy of tension'': Piazza Fontana bombing
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1964
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1963
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1958
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1956
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Beginning of the Irish Republican Army's "Border Campaign".
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1950
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Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leads the congregation in her first services.
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1948
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Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre
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1946
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A fire at a New York City ice plant spreads to a nearby tenement killing 37 people.
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1942
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A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland kills 100 people.
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World War II: German troops begin Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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1941
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World War II: USMC F4F "Wildcats" sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island.
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Adolf Hitler announces extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery
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World War II: Fifty four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesus Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; Cesar Basa is killed.
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1940
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World War II: Approximately 70 people are killed in the Marples Hotel, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield as a result of a German air raid.
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1939
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HMS Duchess (H64) sinks after a collision with HMS Barham off the coast of Scotland with the loss of 124 men
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Winter War: Battle of Tolvajärvi
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1937
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Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink US gunboat ''Panay'' on the Yangtze River in China.
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1936
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1935
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Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
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1925
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The Majlis of Iran votes to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Persia.
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1918
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Flag of Estonia is raised atop the Pikk Hermann for the first time.
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1917
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In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
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1915
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1911
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1901
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1897
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Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, is founded.
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1870
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Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the first black U.S. congressman.
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1862
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USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
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1787
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1781
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American Revolutionary War: Second Battle of Ushant
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1531
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Our Lady of Guadalupe (Spanish: Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe.) An image appeared miraculously on the cloak of Juan Diego, a simple indigenous peasant, on the hill of Tepeyac near Mexico City.
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1408
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The Order of the Dragon a monarchical chivalric order was created by Sigismund of Luxembourg, then King of Hungary.
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1098
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First Crusade: Massacre of Siege of Ma'arrat al-Numan|Ma'arrat al-Numan
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627
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Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh.
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