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The first terrorist attack in Beijing's recent history took place when members of the Turkistan Islamic Party drove a vehicle into a crowd, killing five people and injuring thirty-eight others.
In the Argentine general election, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became the first woman to be elected president of Argentina.
Hans-Adam II threatened to dismiss the Landtag of Liechtenstein over disagreements on the date of a referendum for the country's accession to the EEA.
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Hurricane Melissa makes landfall near Black River, Jamaica, killing over 30 people, as well as tying the 1935 Labor Day hurricane as the most intense landfall in the North Atlantic.
The 2023 Rugby World Cup final is held at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France. It saw South Africa defeat New Zealand 12 to 11, claiming their fourth Webb Ellis Cup, becoming the first nation to do so.
Jair Bolsonaro is elected president of Brazil with 57 million votes, with Workers' Party candidate Fernando Haddad as the runner-up. It is the first time in 16 years that a Workers' Party candidate is not elected president.
A rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Wallops Island, Virginia.
Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China.
The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.
US President Barack Obama signs the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina.
A funeral service takes place at the Bykivnia graves for Ukrainians who were killed by the Soviet secret police.
The Baku Metro fire sees 289 people killed and 270 injured.
Georgia holds its only free election under Soviet rule.
Aloha Island Air Flight 1712, a Twin Otter 300, crashed into terrain at night in Hawaii killing all 20 occupants onboard.
The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.
Prospero becomes the only British satellite to be launched by a British rocket.
Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Roman Catholic Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.
The Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
John XXIII is elected Pope.
Hungarian Revolution: A de facto ceasefire comes into effect between armed revolutionaries and Soviet troops, who begin to withdraw from Budapest. Communist officials and facilities come under attack by revolutionaries.
Aeroflot Flight 136 crashes near Krasnoyarsk, killing 19.
An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board.
Paul Hermann Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
Ecological disaster in Donora, Pennsylvania.
The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.
World War II: Greece rejects Italy's ultimatum. Italy invades Greece through Albania a few hours later.
Indonesia Raya, now the national anthem of Indonesia, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
Italian fascists led by Benito Mussolini march on Rome and take over the Italian government.
The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
World War I: A new Polish government in western Galicia is established, triggering the Polish–Ukrainian War.
World War I: Czech politicians peacefully take over the city of Prague, thus establishing the First Czechoslovak Republic.
Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.
The Mino–Owari earthquake, the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history, occurs.
US president Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital of Richmond is repulsed.
The United Tribes of New Zealand are established with the signature of the Declaration of Independence.
The Pinjarra massacre occurs in the Swan River Colony. An estimated 30 Noongar people are killed by British colonists.
American Revolutionary War: British troops attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Continental Army.
The novel Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift is published.
The 1707 Hōei earthquake causes more than 5,000 deaths in Japan.
The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
The Treaty of Ripon is signed, ending the hostilities of the Second Bishops' War.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony votes to establish a theological college, which would later become Harvard University.
French Wars of Religion: The Siege of La Rochelle ends with the surrender of the Huguenots after fourteen months.
The Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino is founded in what is now the Dominican Republic.
Abyssinian–Adal war: The Adal Sultanate seizes southern Ethiopia.
Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean.
Second Ottoman–Mamluk War: Mamluks fail to stop the Ottoman advance towards Egypt at the Battle of Yaunis Khan.
Christopher Columbus lands in Cuba on his first voyage to the New World, surmising that it is Japan.
Ladislaus the Posthumous is crowned king of Bohemia in Prague.
Christian I is crowned king of Denmark.
Beijing is officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty when the Forbidden City is completed.
The lower town of Smyrna is captured by Latin Christians in response to Aydınid piracy during the Smyrniote crusades.
The Byzantine Empire recovers Antioch from Arab rule.
Constantine I defeats Maxentius, becoming the sole Roman emperor in the West.
Maxentius is proclaimed Roman emperor.
Roman emperor Nerva is forced by the Praetorian Guard to adopt general Marcus Ulpius Trajanus as his heir and successor.