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Selim II
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Selim II, Selim Opój, Selim Pijak – sułtan z dynastii Osmanów, panujący w latach 1566–1574. Rozpoczął erę słabych, niezd…

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Bayezid, Bajazyd osm. لأمير بايزيد – książę (şehzade) osmański, syn Sulejmana Wspaniałego i sułtanki Hürrem. Brat sułtan…

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2017
A hijacker deliberately drove a truck into crowds along Drottninggatan in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people.
2001
NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey (artist's conception pictured), the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, launched from Cape Canaveral.
1995
First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops began a massacre of hundreds of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
1994
A FedEx employee tried to hijack Federal Express Flight 705 in a failed suicide attempt.
1994
Rwandan Civil War: The Rwandan genocide began a few hours after the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana, with hundreds of thousands killed in the following 100 days.
1979
Uganda–Tanzania War: Tanzanian forces defeated Ugandan troops and their Libyan allies at the Battle of Entebbe, opening the way for an advance on the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
1972
Communist forces overran the South Vietnamese town of Lộc Ninh.
1964
American Presbyterian minister Bruce W. Klunder was killed by a bulldozer while protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio.
1949
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based on Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener, opened on Broadway.
1948
The United Nations established the World Health Organization to act as a coordinating authority on international public health.

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