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Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amid rising tensions following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers.
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more.
Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
The inaugural 1980 State of Origin game is won by Queensland who defeat New South Wales 20-10 at Lang Park.
Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.
King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
Ne Win besieges and dynamites the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement.
Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
The United States Air Force accepts its first female recruits into a program called Women in the Air Force (WAF).
Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
The first rugby union test match between the Wallabies of Australia and the Springboks of South Africa is played at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
Sailing ship USS Jeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina.
Ikedaya Incident: The Choshu Han shishi's planned Shinsengumi sabotage on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya.
King Charles XV & IV accedes to the throne of Sweden-Norway.
Joseph Bonaparte approves the Bayonne Statute, a royal charter intended as the basis for his rule as king of Spain.
Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) are rung after John Nixon delivers the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies of North America.
British forces defeat French forces in the last naval battle in New France.
French forces hold Fort Carillon against the British at Ticonderoga, New York.
An estimated magnitude 8.7 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages more than 1,000 km (620 mi) of Chile's coastline.
Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava, thus effectively ending Sweden's status as a major power in Europe.
Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal charter to Rhode Island.
Imjin War: At the Battle of Hansan Island, the Korean Navy, led by Yi Sun-sin, Yi Eok-gi, and Won Gyun, decisively defeats the Japanese Navy, led by Wakisaka Yasuharu.
Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, is discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
Roger of Lauria, commanding the Aragonese fleet defeats an Angevin fleet sent to put down a rebellion on Malta.
Some 15,000 starving Christian soldiers begin the siege of Jerusalem by marching in a religious procession around the city as its Muslim defenders watch.
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