2018
Forest fires spread across large areas of Sweden.
The disaster came after an unusually hot summer. Fires were even found far north in the Arctic Circle.
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2018
Cliff Richard was awarded £210,000 in damages after winning a privacy case against the BBC.
The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) had reported on the singer being investigated for sexually assaulting a minor, for which he was not found guilty.
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2012
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was named marshal, placing him at the highest rank in the military.
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1994
Seal released their hit single “Kiss from a Rose.”
The song went on to win a Grammy Award and was Song of the Year.
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1976
Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci scored the world’s first perfect 10 for gymnastics at the 1976 Olympics.
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1966
NASA launched Gemini X, the tenth spaceflight of the Gemini program.
The mission’s primary objectives were to try and dock with an uncrewed spacecraft in Earth’s orbit to further advance NASA’s capabilities of docking with other spacecraft. The spaceship was crewed by just two astronauts, John Young and Michael Collins, the latter of which would later pilot the Apollo 11 command module. The mission was a complete success, with Collins even getting a chance to become the first person to spacewalk twice.
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1951
American boxer Jersey Joe Walcott became the oldest heavyweight champion aged 37.
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1936
American mobster Charles Luciano (also known as Lucky Luciano) was trialed and sentenced to 30-50 years in prison.
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1925
Adolf Hitler published Mein Kampf in Germany.
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1872
The Ballot Act was passed in Great Britain.
The Ballot Act required elections to be held by secret ballot.
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1864
President Abraham Lincoln asked for 500,000 volunteers to join the military service.
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1334
The first stone of Giotto’s Campanile in Italy was laid.
Giotto’s Campanile is also known as the bell tower, part of Florence’s cathedral complex. The painter Giotto di Bondone was chosen to continue the works and designs for the cathedral on the Piazza del Duomo in Florence.
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1290
King Edward I of England decreed that all Jews must leave the country by November.
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64 AD
A fire broke out in the evening and swept through the city of Rome, which lasted longer than a week.
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