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2008
The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator—described as the biggest scientific experiment in history—is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
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2007
Nawaz Sharif, former prime minister of Pakistan, returns after 7 years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
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2003
Sweden’s foreign minister, Anna Lindh, is stabbed while shopping and dies the next day.
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2001
Contestant Charles Ingram cheats on the British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, wins 1 million pounds.
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1981
Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica is returned to Spain and installed in Madrid’s Prado Museum. Picasso stated in his will that the painting was not to return to Spain until the Fascists lost power and democracy was restored.
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1974
Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese Guinea) gains independence from Portugal.
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1967
Gibraltar votes to remain a British dependency instead of becoming part of Spain.
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1963
President John F. Kennedy federalizes Alabama’s National Guard to prevent Governor George C. Wallace from using guardsmen to stop public-school desegregation.
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1961
Jomo Kenyatta returns to Kenya from exile, during which he had been elected president of the Kenya National African Union.
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1960
Colin Firth, Oscar and Golden Globe-winning actor (The King’s Speech).
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1950
Rosie Flores, singer, musician.
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1949
Bill O’Reilly, TV host (The O’Reilly Factor), author.
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1948
Margaret Trudeau, actress (Kings and Desperate Men), author, photographer.
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1945
Jose Feliciano, guitarist, singer, songwriter.
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1941
Gunpei Yokoi, inventor of Game Boy.