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On This Day

10 events
2016
Chen Quanguo became the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang, and in that role later oversaw the creation of the Xinjiang internment camps.
2007
Six nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a United States Air Force heavy bomber that flew from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
1996
Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801 crashed on approach to Svalbard Airport, Norway, killing all 141 on board.
1991
Italian businessman Libero Grassi was killed by the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo after taking a public stand against their extortion demands.
1984
Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (pictured) began deliberately infecting people in The Dalles, Oregon, with Salmonella in the first and largest bioterrorist attack in United States history.
1960
Air France Flight 343 crashed while attempting to land at Yoff Airport, Dakar, killing all 63 occupants.
1959
Mona Best opened the Casbah Coffee Club with a performance by the Quarrymen, the precursor of the Beatles.
1949
The Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear weapons test, detonating the 22-kiloton RDS-1.
1916
Congress passed the Philippine Autonomy Act, the first formal and official declaration of the U.S.'s commitment to grant independence to the Philippines.
1914
Due to price increases on macaroni products, rioting occurred in the Little Italy area of Providence, Rhode Island.

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