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1625 The British Parliament moves to Oxford to save itself from decimation as the black plague rages through London, killing thousands each week.
1664 Turks are defeated at St Gotthard-on-the-raab in Hungary by Holy Roman Empire troops.
1790 The first US census is completed; showing a population of 4 million people.
1798 Britain’s Admiral Horatio Nelson destroys French fleet in Battle of the Nile, stranding Napoleon Bonaparte and his forces in Egypt.
1914 As World War One approaches, Germany declares war on Russia, shots are fired between French and German border patrols and Italy declares her neutrality.
1941 The Việt Nam Độc Lập
(Independent Việt Nam) newspaper, or Việt Lập for short, with Nguyễn Ái Quốc (Hồ Chí Minh) as editor, makes its debut in Pác Bó Village, Cao Bằng Province, as the mouthpiece of the Mặt Trận Việt Minh (Front of Việt Nam Independence League).
1954 The population of Sài Gòn-chợ Lớn, among them many intellectuals, set up the Movement for the Defence of Peace, demanding peace, democratic freedom and the peaceful re-unification of Việt Nam through free elections as provided by the 1954 Geneva Agreements on Indochina.
1969 In the anti-american war, Vietnamese forces launch simultaneous attacks in 40 cities, provinces and districts in the South of Việt Nam, inflicting 65,000 casualties, destroying 2,600 military vehicles and sinking 178 war vessels.
1971 US Defense Department begins to pullout almost 3,000 US
troops from Việt Nam.
1973 The governments of the Democratic Republic of Việt Nam and the Republic of Singapore establish diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level.
1975 Leaders of 35 nations meet in Helsinki, Finland, and affirm a peace charter in Europe.
1990 Talks between Iraq and Kuwait over oil and border disputes break off, with 100,000 Iraqi troops massed on the Kuwaiti border.
1995 A Swiss woman, Bea Wyler, 44, becomes Germany’s first female rabbi since the Holocaust. The appointment stirs controversy within Germany’s Jewish community.
1998 Milan Kovacevic, a Serb doctor implicated in some 2,000 deaths in concentration camps during the Bosnia-herzegovina war, dies of a heart attack weeks after the start of his trial on war
crimes charges in The Hague, Netherlands.
2002 Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri invites UN weapons inspectors to visit Iraq for the first time since 1998.
2003 A suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden truck in Russia smashes through the gates of a military hospital in the southern republic of North Ossetia and kills 50 people.
2010 The death toll from massive floods in northwestern Pakistan rises to 1,100 as rescue workers struggle to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by the raging water.
2012 The UN chief urges some 1,200 Iranian exiles to follow orders to leave a camp in northern Iraq, the site of two deadly raids by Iraqi forces, and resettle in a new refugee camp near Baghdad.
2014 The head of the World
Health Organization warns that an Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 in West Africa is moving faster than efforts to control the disease.
2015 A landslide in India’s Manipur state near the border with Myanmar buries a village and kills at least twenty people.
2017 According to the United Nations, the Philippines has the largest increase in HIV/AIDS in the Asia Pacific region with about a 140 per cent increase in cases from 2010 until 2016 possibly causing a "national emergency".
2018 Swedish crown jewels stolen in heist from Strängnäs Cathedral, Stockholm.
2019 Protesting Kenyan cancer survivors in Nairobi urge their government to declare a "nation disaster' in a country with only 35 oncologists for 40 million people. AP/REUTERS/VNS