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On This Day

10 events
2015
The JAXA space probe Akatsuki entered into orbit around Venus to study the planet's atmosphere, five years after its first attempt failed.
2014
The annual furry convention Midwest FurFest was targeted in an unsolved chlorine gas attack.
2011
The United States transferred its last base in the Al Anbar Governorate to the Iraqi government, ending the Anbar campaign.
1995
The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
1988
A 6.8 Ms earthquake struck the Spitak region of Armenia, killing at least 25,000 people (aftermath pictured).
1975
The Indonesian military began a lengthy occupation of East Timor under the pretext of anti-colonialism.
1972
Construction workers found the remains of Martin Bormann near Lehrter Station in Berlin, ending a decades-long search after his conviction in absentia at the Nuremberg trials.
1942
Second World War: A small unit of Royal Marines launched Operation Frankton, in which they damaged six ships in the port of Bordeaux in German-occupied France.
1936
Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton (pictured) became the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
1862
American Civil War: The Battle of Prairie Grove ended a Confederate attempt to regain control of northwestern Arkansas.

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