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On This Day

10 events
2015
Nepal was struck by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake, killing more than 8,000 people.
1990
Violeta Chamorro took office as President of Nicaragua, becoming the first female head of state in the Americas to have been elected in her own right.
1983
The first issue of The Jakarta Post was published in Indonesia.
1982
British prime minister Margaret Thatcher told journalists in Downing Street to "rejoice" upon hearing news of the successful recapture of South Georgia from Argentine forces in the Falklands War.
1964
109 individuals were arrested in a police raid on a gay bar near Chicago.
1960
The U.S. Navy submarine Triton (pictured) completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the world.
1946
Two passenger trains collided in Naperville, Illinois, leaving 45 people dead and some 125 injured.
1932
Gladys Elinor Watkins consecrated the carillon of the National War Memorial in Wellington, New Zealand (dedication pictured).
1920
At the San Remo conference, the principal Allies of World War I passed a resolution allocating League of Nations mandates for the administration of former Ottoman territories in the Middle East.
1920
A march by blind people from across the United Kingdom to protest at poor working conditions ended at Trafalgar Square, London.

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