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On This Day

10 gebeurtenissen
2014
A gas leak caused an explosion in East Harlem, New York City, destroying two apartment buildings and causing eight deaths.
2006
U.S. Army soldiers gang-raped a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and murdered her along with her family members.
1993
The Storm of the Century formed over the Gulf of Mexico; at its height its effects were directly experienced by nearly 40 percent of the United States' population.
1971
The Turkish Armed Forces executed a "coup by memorandum", forcing the resignation of Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel (pictured).
1967
General Suharto (pictured) seized power from President Sukarno when the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly sworn him in as acting president of Indonesia.
1952
British diplomat Lord Ismay was appointed the first secretary general of NATO.
1947
Cold War: U.S. president Harry S. Truman proclaimed the Truman Doctrine to help stem the spread of communism.
1940
The Moscow Peace Treaty was signed, ending the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
1934
Supported by the Estonian army, Konstantin Päts staged a coup d'état, beginning the Era of Silence.
1930
Mahatma Gandhi began the Salt March (pictured), a 24-day nonviolent walk to defy the British salt tax in colonial India.

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