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2024
2024 – A helicopter crashes in Kamchatka Krai in the Russian Far East, killing all 22 occupants.
2019
2019 – A sightseeing helicopter crashes in the mountains of Skoddevarre in Alta Municipality in Northern Norway killing all 6 occupants.
2016
2016 – Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is impeached and removed from office.
2006
2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting, The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
2005
2005 – The 2005 Al-Aaimmah bridge stampede in Baghdad kills 953 people.
2002
2002 – Typhoon Rusa, the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, made landfall, killing at least 236 people.
1999
1999 – A LAPA Boeing 737-200 crashes during takeoff from Jorge Newbury Airport in Buenos Aires, killing 65, including two on the ground.
1999
1999 – The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
1997
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her partner, Dodi Fayed, and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
1996
1996 – Saddam Hussein's troops seized Irbil after the Kurdish Masoud Barzani appealed for help to defeat his Kurdish rival PUK.
1994
1994 – Russia completes removing its troops from Estonia.
1993
1993 – Russia completes removing its troops from Lithuania.
1991
1991 – Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1988
1988 – CAAC Flight 301 overshoots the runway at Kai Tak Airport and crashes into Kowloon Bay, killing seven people.
1988
1988 – Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes during takeoff from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, killing 14.
1987
1987 – Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
1986
1986 – The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.
1986
1986 – Aeroméxico Flight 498 collides with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee over Cerritos, California, killing 67 in the air and 15 on the ground.
1972
1972 – Aeroflot Flight 558 crashes in the Abzelilovsky District in Bashkortostan, Russia (then the Soviet Union), killing all 102 people aboard.
1963
1963 – Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah) achieves self governance.
1962
1962 – Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
1959
1959 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
1957
1957 – The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1950
1950 – TWA Flight 903 crashes near Itay El Barud, Egypt, killing all 55 aboard.
1949
1949 – The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece into Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
1943
1943 – USS Harmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
1941
1941 – World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
1940
1940 – Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia. The CAB investigation of the accident is the first investigation to be conducted under the Bureau of Air Commerce act of 1938.
1939
1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe.
1936
1936 – Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
1935
1935 – In an attempt to stay out of the growing tensions concerning Germany and Japan, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.
1933
1933 – The Integral Nationalist Group wins the 1933 Andorran parliamentary election, the first election in Andorra held with universal male suffrage.
1920
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: A decisive Polish victory in the Battle of Komarów.
1918
1918 – World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive.
1907
1907 – Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Anglo-Russian Convention, by which the UK recognizes Russian preeminence in northern Persia, while Russia recognizes British preeminence in southeastern Persia and Afghanistan. Both powers pledge not to interfere in Tibet.
1895
1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
1888
1888 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
1886
1886 – The 7.0 Mw Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Sixty people killed with damage estimated at $5–6 million.
1876
1876 – Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother, Abdul Hamid II.
1864
1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jonesborough, the culmination of the Atlanta campaign, begins as Union forces under General William T. Sherman clash with Confederate troops under General William J. Hardee south of Atlanta.
1813
1813 – Peninsular War: Spanish troops repel a French attack in the Battle of San Marcial.
1798
1798 – Irish Rebellion: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connacht.
1795
1795 – War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee (present-day Sri Lanka) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.
1776
1776 – William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, begins serving his first term.
1535
1535 – Pope Paul III excommunicates English King Henry VIII from the church. He drew up a papal bull of excommunication which began Eius qui immobilis.
1483
1483 – Under the influence of the Ottoman government, patriarch Symeon I convenes a synod of the Eastern Orthodox Churches in Constantinople. The council defines the ritual for admitting Catholics to the Eastern Orthodox Churches and condemns the church union of Ferrara-Florence.
1422
1422 – King Henry V of England dies of dysentery while in France. His son, Henry VI, becomes King of England at the age of nine months.
1420
1420 – The 8.8–9.4 Caldera earthquake shakes Chile's Atacama Region causing tsunami in Chile, Hawaii, and Japan.
1314
1314 – King Haakon V of Norway moves the capital from Bergen to Oslo.
1218
1218 – Al-Kamil becomes sultan of the Ayyubid dynasty.
1057
1057 – Abdication of Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringas after just one year.
1056
1056 – After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies with no children, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty.