A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History

• The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
• Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
• Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
• World War II: Units of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps enter Czechoslovakia during the Battle of the Dukla Pass.
• Dozens are killed by the Thai army in the Thammasat University massacre.
• Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.

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• World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
• World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
• Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
• Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
• The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina
• The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.
• The Ajka plant accident in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers.
• Bubba Wallace becomes the first African-American Driver in the modern era of NASCAR to win a major race

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• Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
• Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops.
• The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
• The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
• TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.
• The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.
• O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
• Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.

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• Guinea declares its independence from France.
• Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
• An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.
• Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead.
• Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States.
• President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.

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• Sayid Abdullah becomes the last Khan of Khiva.
• Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
• The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
• The People's Republic of China is established.
• The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.
• East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
• West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with no survivors in Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
• EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) opens at Walt Disney World in Florida.

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• World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
• The League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
• Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
• NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.
• The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
• Bechuanaland declares its independence, and becomes the Republic of Botswana.
• Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings.
• Malév Flight 240 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while on approach to Beirut International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 60.
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
• The 7.6 Mw  Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.
• Hurricane Matthew becomes a Category 5 hurricane, making it the strongest hurricane to form in the Caribbean Sea since 2007.

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• The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
• The First American Track and Field championships for women are held.
• The French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon takes effect.
• Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia.
• The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.
• China-Japan relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China.
• The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
• Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello is impeached.
• Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.
• Eleven days after the Uri attack, the Indian Army conducts "surgical strikes" against suspected militants in Pakistani-administered Kashmir.

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• World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
• Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska.
• World War II: The siege of Warsaw comes to an end.
• Ted Williams achieves a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better.
• World War II: The Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins.
• Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
• A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew.
• The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
• The Singapore Grand Prix is held as Formula One's inaugural night race, with Fernando Alonso winning the event. Almost a year later it was revealed that Alonso's team-mate Nelson Piquet Jr. had been ordered to crash his car to help bring out the safety car and give Alonso the advantage and win.
• The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1,400 people.

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• "Wreck of the Old 97": an American rail disaster, in which 11 people are killed; it later becomes the subject of a popular ballad.
• Bobby Jones wins the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam of golf.
• The SS Patrick Henry is launched, becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
• Zeng Liansong's design is chosen as the flag of the People's Republic of China.
• Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
• The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
• Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
• Confusion on a tanker ship results in the Julie N. oil spill in Portland, Maine.
• The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.
• In Switzerland, a gunman shoots 18 citizens, killing 14 and then himself.
• The SMART-1 satellite is launched.
• Second Nagorno-Karabakh war: Azerbaijan launched an offensive against the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh, inhabited predominantly by ethnic Armenians.

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• World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
• World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive began which would last until the total surrender of German forces.
• The German government accepts the occupation of the Ruhr.
• The ocean liner RMS Queen Mary is launched.
• The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.
• Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
• Abbey Road, the last recorded album by the Beatles, is released.
• Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
• A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 crashes near Medan airport, killing 234.
• An earthquake strikes the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse.
• The overcrowded Senegalese ferry, MV Le Joola, capsizes off the coast of the Gambia killing more than 1,000.
• The PBS Kids Channel is shut down and replaced by a joint network with Comcast called Sprout.
• Typhoon Ketsana hits the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.

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