The Great Fire of Valparaíso ravages the Chilean city of Valparaíso
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2014 natural disaster in Chile
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Two suicide bombers kill three Chadian soldiers and injure dozens of civilians at a market in Kidal
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Merano derailment: A rail accident in South Tyrol kills nine people and injures a further 28.
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2010 railway accident in Italy
Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency.
📜 CITIES🌍 SOUTH AFRICA
Country in Southeastern Africa
A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building
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Terrorist attack in Baghdad, Iraq
A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda Market
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Terrorist attack in Jerusalem
United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving “intentionally false statements” in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred.
📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED STATES
President of the United States from 1993 to 2001
The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland; the resort and its park’s name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Resort Paris.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 FRANCE
Theme park within Disneyland Paris
Widerøe Flight 839 crashes after takeoff from Værøy Airport in Norway
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 CANADA
1990 aviation accident in Norway
Jim Gary’s “Twentieth Century Dinosaurs” exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington
📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED STATES
American artist and sculptor (1939-2006)
Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-51D to deploy two communications satellites.
📜 SPACE🌍 UNITED STATES
Space Shuttle orbiter (1984–2011)
Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago.
📜 POLITICS🌍 UNITED STATES
Illinois politician and 51st mayor of Chicago
The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.
📜 SPACE🌍 GLOBAL
Partially reusable launch system and space plane
Transbrasil Flight 303
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 BRAZIL
1980 passenger plane crash in Florianópolis, Brazil
The Americo-Liberian government of Liberia is violently deposed.
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Military overthrow and execution of President William Tolbert
![The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.[citation needed]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/1280px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png)
The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 collides with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the Danish straits.[citation needed]
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Country in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first crewed orbital flight
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US–USSR spaceflight capability rivalry