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1993 - Oslo Accords
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
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1848 - Phineas Gage
Vermont railroad worker Phineas Gage survives an iron rod in diameter being driven through his brain; the reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate discussion of the nature of the brain and its functions.
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1229 - Ögedei Khan
Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.
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2013 - NASA
NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.
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1958 - Integrated circuit
Jack Kilby demonstrates the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
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1683 - Battle of Vienna
Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna: Several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
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2001 - World Trade Center (1973–2001)
Nineteen members of al-Qaeda execute the September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that killed 2,977 people using four hijacked aircraft. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County,
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1565 - Great Siege of Malta
Ottoman forces retreat from Malta ending the Great Siege of Malta.
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1297 - Battle of Stirling Bridge
Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English.
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2008 - CERN
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
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1846 - Elias Howe
Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
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1918 - Kazan Operation
Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.