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50 years ago today, Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam symbolically handed over land to the Gurindji people after the eight-year Wave Hill walk-off. (www.abc.net.au)
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75 years ago today, measuring Mw 8.6, the largest earthquake on land occured in the Assam-Tibet-Myanmar border, killing 4,800. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in London, the first in its record-breaking run in cinemas, which continues in limited release. (en.wikipedia.org)
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45 years ago today, Lech Wałęsa led strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards. (www.britannica.com)
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25 years ago today, Kursk, an Oscar-class submarine of the Russian Navy, suffered an on-board explosion and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing 118 people. (en.wikipedia.org)
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120 years ago today, Norwegians voted to end the union with Sweden. Only 184 voted against the proposal out of over 371,000 votes cast. (en.wikipedia.org)
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40 years ago today, Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crashed into Mount Takamagahara in Gunma Prefecture, killing 520 of 524 people on board in the world's worst single-aircraft aviation disaster. (en.wikipedia.org)
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31 years ago today, Woodstock '94 started (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, the Timorese Democratic Union launched a coup in Portuguese Timor, starting the East Timorese civil war. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Robert H. Goddard, an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor, died. He is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. (en.wikipedia.org)
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111 years ago today, Tove Jansson, the creator of Moomins, was born (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a Japanese marine engineer, survived a nuclear explosion for the second time. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, Dmitri Shostakovich, a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist, died. He became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926. (en.wikipedia.org)
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25 years ago today, Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, Cannonball Adderley, an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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60 years ago today, the Independence of Singapore Agreement 1965 was concluded between the governments of Malaysia and Singapore. (en.wikipedia.org)
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135 years ago today, at Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler became the first person to be executed by electric chair. (en.wikipedia.org)
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60 years ago today, U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. It is a landmark U.S. federal statute that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, the U.S. Army Air Force bomber Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, killing about 70,000 people instantly. (en.wikipedia.org)
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100 years ago today, Plaid Cymru was formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that was at the time in danger of dying out. (en.wikipedia.org)
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965 years ago today, Philip I began his reign as King of the Franks when he was eight years old. His reign, like that of most of the early Capetians, was extraordinarily long for the time. (en.wikipedia.org)
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150 years ago today, Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish author, died. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. (en.wikipedia.org)
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230 years ago today, the Treaty of Greenville was signed, ending the Northwest Indian War in the Ohio Country. (en.wikipedia.org)
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65 years ago today, Ocean's 11, an American heist film, premiered in Las Vegas. It was directed and produced by Lewis Milestone from a screenplay by Harry Brown and Charles Lederer. (sopuli.xyz)
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2,240 years ago today, the Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeated a numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae. (en.wikipedia.org)
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