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Pieces of the French Crown Jewels are successfully stolen during a heist on the Louvre Museum in Paris.

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2010s

Members of Parliament met at the House of Lords to discuss the United Kingdom's Brexit deal, this was the first Saturday sitting in Parliament since 3 April 1982 during the Falklands War.

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One hundred and five people are injured in a train crash in Buenos Aires.

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A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 more in Lebanon.

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2000s

Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

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Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.

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Thirteen people are killed when Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashes in Adair County, Missouri, while on approach to Kirksville Regional Airport.

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Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.

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SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 migrants, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.

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1980s

The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.

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The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.

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The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.

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Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.

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The president of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, along with 33 others, die when their aircraft crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.

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1970s

Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.

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President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.

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1960s

The United States imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.

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1950s

The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.

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The General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union approves the staging of the first Eurovision Song Contest.

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Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is published.

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