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1290 – 1290 - Earthquake in Gulf of Chili China, reportedly kills 100,000.
1694 – Hurricane hits Carlisle Bay Barbados; 27 British ships sink & 3,000 die.
1822 - Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone.
1825 - Rail transport is born with the opening of the Stockton-Darlington line.
1993 - Republic of Macedonia was admited as a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
1994 - Republic of Macedonia has established diplomatic relations with Portugal and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1995 - Republic of Macedonia was admitted to the Council of Europe as the 38th member.
WORLD RIVERS DAY
WORLD TOURISM DAY
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1580 - Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind
1907 - New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
1954 - Typhoon hits Japan - 5 ferryboats sink killing about 1,600
1959 - Typhoon Vera, hits Japanese island of Honshu, causing the deaths of 4,580 people with 658 missing
EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES
WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DAY
INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE TOTAL ELIMINATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
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1493 - Columbus' 2nd expedition to New World.
1853 - 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt).
1853 - France annexes New Caledonia.
1952 - Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5.
1966 - Hurricane Inez, kills 293 in Caribbean, Florida & Mexico.
1970 - Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon.
1973 - Guinea-Bissau declares independence from Portugal.
1995 - Volcano Mount Ruapehu (North Island, NZ) erupts.
EID AL-QURBAN (FEAST OF SACRIFICE) FOR THE MUSLIMS.
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1791 - Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Encke Comet)
1846 - Johann Gottfried Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune
1877 - Hurricane strikes Curacao & Bonaire kills 200
1908 - University of Alberta opens
1930 - Pyotr Ivanovich Kolodin, cosmonaut (Soyuyz 7, 10, 11 backup)
AUTUMNAL EQUINOX
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1934 - Typhoon strikes Honshu Island Japan, kills 4,000
1938 - Hurricane (183 MPH winds) in New England kills 700
1964 - Malta becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1970 - Luna 16 leaves Moon
1984 - NASA launches Galaxy-C
1991 - Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union.
1999 - Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead.
2001 - Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE