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A terrorist attack in Turkey's Istanbul Atatürk Airport kills 42 people and injures more than 230 others.
Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.
Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
Slobodan Milošević is extradited to the ICTY in The Hague to stand trial.
Holyfield-Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the third round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield's ear.
On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.
The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
The Angolan court sentences US and UK mercenaries to death sentences and prison terms in the Luanda Trial.
Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
in Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
Korean War: North Korean Army conducts Seoul National University Hospital massacre.
Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge to in attempt to slow North Korea's offensive.
Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between as many as 100,000 to 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.
Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
The Tito-Stalin Split results in the expulsion of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the Cominform.
Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.
World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.
Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union after facing an ultimatum.
Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis' claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua form the Greater Republic of Central America.
The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
The first conformation dog show is held in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
Sigma Chi fraternity is founded in North America.
The Paris Opera Ballet premieres Giselle in the Salle Le Peletier.
Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.
Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.
The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory in the American Revolutionary War leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.
A New England colonial army captures the French fortifications at Louisbourg (New Style).
Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
Charles V is elected Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
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