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On This Day
10 events2008
The Guinean military engineered a coup d'état, announcing that it planned to rule the country for two years prior to a new presidential election.
1997
The Pioneer Helmet, one of only six Anglo-Saxon helmets to be discovered, was first placed on public display.
1990
About 88 percent of eligible voters in Slovenia voted to secede from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1984
An engine fire caused Aeroflot Flight 3519 to crash shortly after takeoff from Krasnoyarsk, USSR, killing all but one of the 111 people on board.
1958
Tokyo Tower, then the world's tallest freestanding tower, opened.
1957
Leading the Australia national cricket team, Ian Craig became the youngest-ever Test cricket captain at the time.
1919
The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act was enacted, lifting most of the existing common-law restrictions on women in the United Kingdom.
1916
First World War: Allied forces gained a strategic victory at the Battle of Magdhaba on the Sinai Peninsula.
1888
During a bout of mental illness, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (pictured) severed part of his left ear and gave it to a woman in a brothel in Arles, France.
1815
Jane Austen's novel Emma was first published, the last novel released during her lifetime.