2021
US reopens its borders to vaccinated non US citizens after more than 18 months, lifting restrictions imposed because of COVID-19.
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2020
More than 50 people beheaded in latest attack by Islamist militants in Cabo Delgado province, northern Mozambique.
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2018
The Camp Fire in California became that state’s deadliest blaze after it killed 88 people and caused 52,000 people to be evacuated.
The disaster also caused $16.5 billion in damages, covering 153,336 acres.
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2018
Two hundred bodies were found in a mass grave site between Ethiopia and Somalia.
It became physical evidence of the atrocities done by former regional president Abdi Mohamed.
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2017
All schools and colleges in Delhi, India, were closed for a week due to dangerous levels of smog.
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2016
Donald Trump won an election to become the 45th president of the United States of America.
Republican, Trump received 304 electoral votes against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton who received 227 votes.
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2013
Category five Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the Philippines and claimed the lives of more than 6,000 people with gusts up to 145 miles per hour.
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2011
Asteroid 2005 YU55 came dangerously close to hitting the Earth.
It whizzed past at a distance of about 201,700 miles (324,600 km), closer than the moon’s orbit. It was the closest a space object has come to us since 1976.
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2004
Canadian country singer Shania Twain released her Greatest Hits album and later received Billboard’s 2004 Album of the Year.
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1972
Home Box Office, otherwise known as HBO, was launched.
The first program aired by HBO was an NHL game between the Vancouver Canucks and the New York Rangers. At its launch, HBO had a total of 365 subscribers.
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1941
The Albanian Communist Party was formed, with Enver Hoxha as its leader.
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1895
German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered x-rays.
On this day, Röntgen produced and discovered electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength called Röntgen rays, which we know today as x-rays. Röntgen won a Nobel Prize in 1901 for this discovery.
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1889
Montana became the 41st state to join the United States of America.
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1734
French master chef Vincent La Chapelle formed a Freemason’s Lodge in the Netherlands.
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1602
The Bodleian Library, situated at The University of Oxford, England, opened its doors to the public.
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