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2007
German Bundestag passes controversial bill mandating storage of citizens’ telecommunications traffic date for six months without probable cause.
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1998
Largest civil settlement in US history: 37 brokerage houses are ordered to pay $1.3 billion to NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
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1994
The chemical element Darmstadtium, a radioactive synthetic element, discovered by scientists in Darmstadt, Germany.
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1993
Stari Most, a 427-year-old bridge in the city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is destroyed, believed to be caused by artillery fire from Bosnian Croat forces.
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1989
The Berlin Wall is opened after dividing the city for 28 years.
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1983
Alfred Heineken, beer brewer from Amsterdam, is kidnapped and held for a ransom of more than $10 million.
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1972
Bones discovered by the Leakeys push human origins back 1 million years.
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1967
NASA launches Apollo 4 into orbit with the first successful test of a Saturn V rocket.
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1965
Nine Northeastern states and parts of Canada go dark in the worst power failure in history, when a switch at a station near Niagara Falls fails.
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Roger Allen LaPorte, a 22-year-old former seminarian and a member of the Catholic worker movement, immolates himself at the United Nations in New York City in protest of the Vietnam War.
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1941
Tom Fogerty, musician; guitarist with Creedence Clearwater Revival.
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1938
Nazis kill 35 Jews, arrest thousands and destroy Jewish synagogues, homes and stores throughout Germany. The event becomes known as Kristallnacht, the night of the shattered glass.
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1936
Mary Travers, singer, songwriter; member of Vocal Group folk group Peter, Paul and Mary (“Puff the Magic Dragon,” “If I Had a Hammer”).
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1935
Japanese troops invade Shanghai, China.
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1934
Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer.