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2011
Gold hits a record price of $1,826 per ounce.
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2010
Edelmiro Cavazos, mayor of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, is found handcuffed, blindfolded and dead following his abduction three days earlier. He had championed crackdowns on organized crime and police corruption.
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1993
Historic Kapelbrug (chapel bridge) in Luzern, Switzerland, burns, destroying 147 of its decorative paintings. It was built in 1365.
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1992
Dennis Rader, the BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) killer receives 10 consecutive life sentences. He had terrorized Wichita, Kansas, murdering 10 people between 1974 and 1991.
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1991
A group of hard-line communist leaders unhappy with the drift toward the collapse of the Soviet Union seize control of the government in Moscow and place President Mikhail S. Gorbachev under house arrest
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1988
Republican Convention in New Orleans nominate the George H.W. Bush-Dan Quayle ticket.
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1987
Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentenced to triple life terms for poisoning 24 patients.
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1982
Pete Rose sets record with his 13,941st plate appearance.
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1979
Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini demands a “Saint War” against Kurds.
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1974
Luna 24, the USSR’s final major lunar exploration mission, soft-lands on moon.
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1973
Hank Aaron makes his 1,378 extra-base hit, surpassing Stan Musial’s record.
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1969
Christian Slater, actor (Heathers, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Hard Rain).
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Two concert goers die at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, one from an overdose of heroin, the other from a burst appendix.
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1966
Australian troops repulse a Viet Cong attack at Long Tan.
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1965
Operation Starlite marks the beginning of major U.S. ground combat operations in Vietnam.