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On This Day

10 events
2016
LaMia Flight 2933 crashed near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 people, many of whom were players from Chapecoense Football Club.
1987
South African Airways Flight 295 suffered a catastrophic in-flight fire and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius, killing all 159 people on board.
1979
Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed into Antarctica's Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
1967
Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a "bit of scruff" in data from a radio telescope, which turned out to be from PSR B1919+21, the first discovered pulsar.
1966
In a military coup, Michel Micombero abolished the Burundian monarchy and declared the country a republic with himself as president.
1925
Grand Ole Opry, the longest-running radio broadcast in the United States, first aired on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee.
1912
At the All-Albanian Congress, the Assembly of Vlorë was constituted, which declared the independence of the Albanian Vilayet from the Ottoman Empire.
1903
SS Petriana struck a reef near Point Nepean, leading to Australia's first major oil spill and a debate over the White Australia policy.
1895
The Chicago Times-Herald race, the first automobile race in the U.S., was held in Chicago.
1811
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 premiered at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.

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