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Rehavam Ze'evi, the Israeli minister of tourism, was assassinated in revenge for the killing of PFLP leader Abu Ali Mustafa.
A fatal rail crash at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, led to the introduction of widespread speed limit reductions throughout the British rail network and eventually caused the collapse of the railway management group Railtrack.
Having gone to the wrong house in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for a Halloween party, Japanese exchange student Yoshihiro Hattori was shot and killed by the homeowner.
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An explosion at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza kills hundreds of Palestinians during the Gaza war.
Drug dealers in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico force the government to back down on an arrest.
The 17 October Revolution starts in Lebanon.
The recreational use of cannabis is legalized in Canada.
A mass shooting and bombing at Kerch Polytechnic College in Crimea kills 21 people including the attacker and injures 70 others.
Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last foothold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, marking the end of the Battle of Raqqa.
A fire that lasted over 15 hours destroyed almost one third of the East Tower of the Parque Central Urban Complex in Caracas, Venezuela.
Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi is assassinated by Hamdi Quran, a member of the PFLP, thus becoming the highest-ranking Israeli to be killed by a Palestinian.
The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who explode two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.
The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay Area and the Central Coast, killing 63.
The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary.
Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at RomeâFiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.
As part of the Holy SeeâUnited Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Department of Education Organization Act creates the U.S. Department of Education.
The hijacked Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu. The remaining hostages are later rescued.
OPEC imposes an oil embargo against countries they deem to have helped Israel in the Yom Kippur War.
FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.
The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.
The 23rd Street Fire in New York City kills 12 firefighters.
The 1964â65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51Â million attendees.
Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
The first attempt of the apartheid analogy by Ahmad Shukeiri.
The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.
Indonesian Army elements surrounded the Merdeka Palace demanding President Sukarno disband the Provisional People's Representative Council.
A large demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina, demands Juan PerĂłn's release.
The Burma Railway (BurmaâThailand Railway) is completed.
Nazi Holocaust in Poland: SobibĂłr extermination camp is closed.
World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first U.S. Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
The body of Communist propagandist Willi MĂŒnzenberg is found in South France, starting a never-resolved mystery.
Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
Leeds United F.C. founded at Salem Chapel, Holbeck after the winding up of Leeds City F.C. for making illegal payments to players during World War I
Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
Aboriginal Australians kill nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.
First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
Riots start, which lead to a massacre in Aleppo.
Eight people die in the London Beer Flood.
The silver deposits of Agua Amarga are discovered in Chile becoming in the following years instrumental for the Patriots to finance the Chilean War of Independence.
Former leader of the Haitian Revolution, Emperor Jacques I, is assassinated after an oppressive rule.
War of the Second Coalition: Britain takes control of the Dutch colony of Curaçao.
Treaty of Campo Formio is signed between France and Austria, ending the War of the First Coalition.
American Revolutionary War: British General Charles, Earl Cornwallis surrenders at the Siege of Yorktown.
American Revolutionary War: British General John Burgoyne surrenders his army at Saratoga, New York.
Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.
Great Northern War: Russia defeats Sweden in the Battle of Kostianvirta in PÀlkÀne.
Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to Louis XIV of France for 40,000 pounds.
The nine regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I of England are hanged, drawn and quartered.
French king Louis XIII is crowned in Reims Cathedral.
Kepler's Supernova is observed in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli's position on the Mass.
The University of Greifswald is established as the second oldest university in northern Europe.
An Ottoman army defeats a Hungarian army at the Second Battle of Kosovo.
The English capture King David II of Scotland at Neville's Cross and imprison him for eleven years.
London tornado of 1091: A tornado thought to be of strength T8/F4 strikes the heart of London.
Empress Wu Zetian establishes the Zhou Dynasty of China.