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Nanjing Massacre
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Nanjing Massacre

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The Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing was the mass rape and murder of Chinese civilians, noncombatants, and prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China. It took place immediately after the Battle of Nanjing and retreat of the National Revolutionary Army during t…

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Serena Williams
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Serena Jameka Williams is an American former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's si…

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Arthur Melo
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Arthur Henrique Ramos de Oliveira Melo, known as Arthur or Arthur Melo, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays…

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2019
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2000
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Speakers' Corner, a free speech area in Hong Lim Park in Singapore, was launched.
1983
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A Soviet jet interceptor shot down the civilian Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near the island of Sakhalin in the north Pacific, killing all 246 passengers and 23 crew on board.
1973
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A 76-hour multinational rescue effort in the Irish Sea resulted in the deepest sub rescue in history (pictured).
1972
Cold_War
In a match widely publicized as a Cold War confrontation, American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer became the 11th World Chess Champion with his victory over Soviet Boris Spassky.
1969
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Muammar Gaddafi (pictured) led a coup d'état to overthrow King Idris of Libya.
1967
1967_Arab_League_summit
At an Arab League summit, eight nations issued the Khartoum Resolution, declaring that there would be "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, [and] no negotiations with it".
1966
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1953
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Channel 11 began television broadcasts in Minneapolis, United States.
1952
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Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea, which later won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was first published.

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