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The Georgia Guidestones was a granite monument that stood in Elbert County, Georgia, United States, from 1980 to 2022. I…
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On This Day
10 events2016
A U.S. Army Reserve veteran ambushed and shot at police officers (memorial service pictured) in Dallas, killing five of them and injuring nine others, before being killed by a bomb attached to a police robot.
1991
Yugoslav Wars: The signing of the Brioni Agreement ended the Ten-Day War between SFR Yugoslavia and Slovenia.
1983
After writing a letter to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith visited the Soviet Union as Andropov's personal guest, becoming known as "America's Youngest Ambassador".
1974
West Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against the Netherlands at the Munich Olympiastadion.
1963
The secret police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest during the Buddhist crisis.
1937
The Peel Commission published a report stating that the League of Nations' Mandate for Palestine had become unworkable and recommended the partition of British-administered Mandatory Palestine into two states.
1911
Four countries signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, which banned the hunting of seals in the pelagic zone.
1907
Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, American impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (pictured) staged the first of his Ziegfeld Follies.
1898
US president William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
1800
War of the Second Coalition: The British Royal Navy force attacked the well-defended French anchorage of Dunkirk (depicted), capturing a French frigate.