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2008
Georgia invades South Ossetia, touching off a five-day war between Georgia and Russia.
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2007
An EF2 tornado hits Brooklyn, New York, the first in that borough since 1889.
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2000
The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to surface, 136 years after it sank following its successful attack on USS Housatonic in the outer harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
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1990
Iraq annexes the state of Kuwait as its 19th province, six days after Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait.
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1989
NASA Space Shuttle Columbia begins its eighth flight, NASA’s 30th shuttle mission.
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1988
Angola, Cuba and South Africa sign a cease-fire treaty in the border war that began in 1966.
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1983
Brigadier General Efrain Rios Montt is deposed as president of Guatemala in the country’s second military coup in 17 months.
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1979
Iraq’s president Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents.
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1978
Pioneer-Venus 2 is launched to probe the atmosphere of Venus.
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1974
President Richard Nixon resigns from the presidency as a result of the Watergate scandal.
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1964
M. Ashman, author, co-editor of Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey, and a founding member of TED Global, the international organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.
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1963
England’s “Great Train Robbery;” 2.6 million pounds ($7.3 million) is stolen
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1950
U.S. troops repel the first North Korean attempt to overrun them at the Battle of Naktong Bulge, which continued for 10 days.
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1948
Svetlana Y Savitskaya, Soviet cosmonaut, the first woman to walk in space (July 25, 1984).
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1945