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10 events
2016
In the first meeting between the leaders of the Catholic Church and the Russian Orthodox Church, Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow signed the Havana Declaration at José Martí International Airport in Cuba.
2009
Just before landing at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York, killing the house's occupant and all 49 people on board the aircraft.
2003
Protesters in La Paz and the Bolivian government brokered a deal to end two days of rioting against a proposed salary tax.
2001
The NASA space probe NEAR Shoemaker touched down on Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
1994
Edvard Munch's painting The Scream (pictured) was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway.
1993
Two-year-old James Bulger was led away from New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, England, and murdered by two 10-year-old boys, who became the youngest convicted murderers in modern English history.
1988
While claiming the right of innocent passage through Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea, the American cruiser USS Yorktown and destroyer USS Caron were bumped by Soviet warships.
1968
Following the deaths of two employees on the job, black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, began a strike that lasted more than two months.
1945
A devistating tornado outbreak across Mississippi and Alabama kills 45 people and injures 427 others.
1942
The Imperial Japanese Army initiated the Battle of Pasir Panjang in Kent Ridge Park in Singapore.

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