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20202020Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijani forces defeated the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh at the Battle of Shusha, reclaiming the town of Shusha after 28 years.Read the full history ↗
  1. 2017The Louvre Abu Dhabi was inaugurated by the French president Emmanuel Macron and then-crown prince of Abu Dhabi Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
  2. 2013Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Visayas region of the Philippines, killing at least 6,300 people, making it the deadliest Philippine typhoon recorded in modern history.
  3. 1999German newspaper Der Spiegel publishes a report by the Federal Intelligence Service accusing figures in Liechtenstein of cooperating with organized crime.
  4. 1987A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing 12 people and injuring 63 others.
  5. 1974British peer Lord Lucan disappeared without a trace, a day after allegedly murdering Sandra Rivett, his children's nanny.
  6. 1971The English rock group Led Zeppelin released their fourth album, which became one of the best-selling albums worldwide.
  7. 1966Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke (pictured) became the first African American to be elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
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