475 – Romulus ______ is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor. He is often considered to be the last emperor of the west.
683 – During the Siege of ______, the Kaaba, the most sacred site in Islam, catches fire and is burned down.
1517 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in ________, Germany.
1795 – English poet John ____ is born.
1864 – _____ is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
1876 – A monster cyclone ravages ____, resulting in over 200,000 deaths.
1887 – Chiang Kai-shek, the first President of the Republic of ____ (Taiwan), is born.
1903 – The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in _________, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
1918 – World War I: Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, with armstice gained at the Battle of Vittorio ______.
1922 – Benito ________ is made Prime Minister of Italy.
1923 – The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at ________, Western Australia, setting a world record.
1926 – ____ Houdini, American magician and stuntman, died at age 52.
1936 – Michael Landon, Little House on the ____ director and actor, is born.
1940 – World War II: The Battle of Britain ends: The United Kingdom prevents a possible ______ invasion.
1941 – After 14 years of work, Mount ______ is completed.
1941 – World War II: The destroyer USS _________ is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 U.S. Navy sailors.
1943 – World War II: An F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided _______ by a United States Navy or Marine Corps aircraft.
1956 – Suez Crisis: The United Kingdom and France begin bombing ______ to force the reopening of the Suez Canal.
1963 – An explosion at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now Indiana Farmers Coliseum) in Indianapolis kills 74 people and injures another 400 during a ______ show.
1973 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from ______ Prison, Dublin aboard a hijacked helicopter that landed in the exercise yard.
1979 – Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashes on landing in _____ City, killing 73 people.
1984 – Indian Prime Minister _____ Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards. Riots break out in New Delhi and other cities and around 3,000 Sikhs are killed.
1993 – Actor River Phoenix died of combined drug intoxication on the sidewalk outside the West Hollywood nightclub The ___ Room.
1996 – TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 crashes in ______, Brazil, killing 99 people.
1999 – EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the ______ Ocean near Nantucket, killing all 217 people on board.
2000 – Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashes on takeoff from _____, killing 83.
2011 – The global population of humans reaches seven billion. This day is now recognized by the ________ as Seven Billion Day.
2015 – Metrojet Flight 9268 is bombed over the northern ____ Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board.
2017 - A truck drives into a crowd of people in Lower ________, killing at least 8 people.
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