2010
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Roy Halladay pitches the second no-hitter in MLB Postseason History during Game 1 of the NLDS versus the Cinncinnati Reds
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2007
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Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
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2002
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The French oil tanker ''Limburg ''is bombed off Yemen.
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2000
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Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
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1995
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1987
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1985
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PC Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
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1979
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Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
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1977
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In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
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The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
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1976
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Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados after two bombs, placed on board by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded. All 73 people on-board are killed.
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Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom, by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
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1973
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Egypt launches a coordinated attack against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
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1945
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Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).
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1939
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1928
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1927
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Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
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1923
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1908
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Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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1889
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1884
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1854
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The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.
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1849
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The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
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1789
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1762
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1683
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1600
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Jacopo Peri's ''Euridice'', the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period
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1582
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