2021
Czech populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis narrowly defeated in nation elections by a coalition of opposition parties.
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2020
The UN’s World Food Programme is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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2019
Turkey launches airstrikes on Kurdish forces in Northern Syria after US President Donald Trump announces decision to pull back US forces.
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2015
American singer Selena Gomez released her second full-length studio album “Revival.”
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2012
14-year-old girls-rights activist Malala Yousafzai was shot three times on her way to school.
Malala Yousafzai was stepping onto her school bus when she was shot in the Swat Valley, in northwest Pakistan. The Taliban told the BBC that they committed the attack.
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2012
German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Athens and was met by 50,000 protestors.
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2006
Google announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion.
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1992
A fragment of a meteorite landed in Peekskill, New York, US, and smashed a 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
The meteorite weighed roughly 28.6lbs (13kg).
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1990
One thousand radio stations from over 100 countries around the world simultaneously broadcast John Lennon’s “Imagine” in honor of what would have been his 50th birthday.
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1987
Bruce Springsteen released his album “Tunnel of Love.”
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1986
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Phantom of the Opera” was premiered in London with stars Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman.
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1968
A 2,000-strong student protest against police brutality broke out in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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1936
Hoover Dam began producing electricity and transmitting it to Los Angeles, California.
Initially called Boulder Dam, Hoover Dam was later renamed after President Hoover, who was in power when the project began. Los Angeles held a huge celebration in honor of the momentous occasion, with as many as a million people crowding into the downtown district to witness the spectacle.
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1834
The Dublin and Kingstown Railway officially opened.
It was the first public railway on the island of Ireland. It linked Westland Row in Dublin with Kingstown Harbour in County Dublin.
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1665
British Parliament met at the University of Oxford rather than the Palace of Westminster during the Great Plague of London.
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1446
The South Korean alphabet, called “Hangul,” was published.
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