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-*[[480 BC]] - [[Battle of Salamis]]: The Greek fleet under [[Themistokles]], defeats the Persian fleet under [[Xerxes I]].  
-*[[522 BC]] - [[Darius I of Persia]] kills the Magian usurper Gaumâta, securing his hold as king of the [[Persian Empire]]. 
-*[[61 BC]] - [[Pompey|Pompey the Great]] celebrates his third [[Roman triumph|triumph]], for victories over the [[pirate]]s and the end of the [[Mithridatic Wars]] on his 45th birthday. 
-*[[440]] - [[Pope Leo I|Leo I]] becomes [[pope]]. 
-*[[855]] - [[Pope Benedict III|Benedict III]] becomes pope. 
-*[[1066]] - [[William the Conqueror]] invades [[England]]. 
-*[[1364]] - [[Battle of Auray]]: [[England|English]] forces defeat [[France|French]] at [[Brittany]]; end of the [[Breton War of Succession]]. 
-*[[1567]] - The second [[War of Religion]] in France breaks out. 
-* 1567 - At a dinner, the [[Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba|Duke of Alba]] arrests the [[Count of Egmont]] and the [[Count of Horne]] for [[treason]]. 
-*[[1650]] - [[Henry Robinson]] opens his ''[[Office of Addresses and Encounters]]'' - the first historically documented [[dating service]] - in [[Threadneedle Street]], [[London]]. 
-*[[1789]] - The [[United States|U.S.]] [[United States War Department|War Department]] first establishes a regular [[United States Army|army]] with a strength of several hundred men. 
-* 1789 - The first [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]] adjourns. 
-*[[1829]] - The [[Metropolitan Police Service|Metropolitan Police]] of [[Greater London|London]], also known as ''the Met'', is founded. 
-*[[1850]] - The [[Roman Catholic]] hierarchy is re-established in [[England]] and [[Wales]] by [[Pope Pius IX]].  
-*[[1864]] - [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Chaffin's Farm]] is fought. 
-*[[1885]] - The first practical public electric [[tramway]] in the world was opened in [[Blackpool tramway|Blackpool]], [[England]]. 
-*[[1907]] - The cornerstone is laid at [[Washington National Cathedral]] in the [[United States|U.S.]] capital. 
-*[[1911]] - [[Italy]] declares war on the [[Ottoman Empire]]. 
-*[[1918]] - The [[Hindenburg Line]] is broken by [[Allies|Allied]] forces during [[World War I]]. [[Bulgaria]] signed an [[armistice]]. 
-*[[1924]] - [[Plutarco Elías Calles]] is proclaimed [[President of Mexico]]. 
-*[[1938]] - [[United Kingdom|Britain]], [[France]], [[Germany]] and [[Italy]] sign the [[Munich Agreement]], allowing [[Germany]] to occupy the [[Sudetenland]] region of [[Czechoslovakia]]. 
-*[[1941]] - [[Holocaust]] in [[Kiev]], [[Ukraine]]: [[Germany|German]] [[Einsatzgruppe]] C starts [[Babi Yar]] massacre. According to the [[Einsatzgruppen]] Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 [[Jews]] from [[Kiev]] and its suburbs were killed at [[Babi Yar]] on September 29 - [[September 30|30]], [[1941]]. 
-*[[1943]] - [[United States|U.S.]] [[General]] [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] and [[Italy|Italian]] [[Marshal]] [[Pietro Badoglio]] sign an [[armistice]] aboard the [[United Kingdom|British]] ship [[HMS Nelson|''Nelson'']] off the shore of [[Malta]]. 
-*[[1954]] - The convention establishing [[CERN]] ([[European Organization for Nuclear Research]]) is signed. 
-* 1954 - [[Major League Baseball]]: [[Willie Mays]] of the then New York Giants makes "[[The Catch (baseball)|The Catch]]" at [[The Polo Grounds]] in game one of the [[World Series]]. 
-*[[1957]] - 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the [[Soviet]] [[Mayak]] nuclear plant at [[Chelyabinsk]]. 
-*[[1960]] - [[Nikita Khrushchev]], leader of [[Soviet Union]], disorders a meeting of the [[United Nations General Assembly]] with a number of angry outbursts. 
-*[[1962]] - ''[[Alouette 1]],'' the first [[Canada|Canadian]] [[satellite]], is launched. 
-*[[1963]] - The second period of the [[Second Vatican Council]] opens. 
-*[[1964]] - The Argentine comic strip [[Mafalda]] is published for the first time. 
-*[[1965]] - The [[National Security Agency|NSA]] memorial lists ten agents lost on this date. 
-*[[1967]] - The first episode of [[Captain Scarlet]] is aired on Television  
-*[[1971]] - [[Oman]] joins the [[Arab League]]. 
-*[[1972]] - [[Sino-Japanese relations]]: [[Japan]] establishes [[diplomatic relations]] with the [[People's Republic of China]] after breaking official ties with the [[Republic of China]]. 
-*[[1975]] - [[WGPR]] in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station. 
-* 1975 - [[Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush]] becomes American television's first African-American weathercaster. 
-*[[1979]] - [[Pope John Paul II]] became the first pontiff to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the [[Republic of Ireland]]. 
-*[[1988]] - [[NASA]] resumes [[space shuttle]] flights, grounded after the ''[[Space Shuttle Challenger|Challenger]]'' [[STS-51-L|disaster]], with [[STS-26]]. 
-[[Image:Sts-26-patch.jpg|180px|thumb|right|The mission logo of [[STS-26]], flown by [[OV-103]].]] 
-*[[1990]] - [[Washington]] [[National Cathedral]] finished. 
-*[[1991]] - Military coup in [[Haiti]]. 
-*[[1992]] - [[President of Brazil|Brazilian President]] [[Fernando Collor de Mello]] resigns. 
-* 1992 - [[Erotica (song)]] released by Madonna 
-*[[1995]] - [[Khaled Kelkal]] is killed by the [[French Police]]. 
-* 1995 - The [[United States Navy]] disestablishes Fighter Squadron #84 (VF-84), the celebrated [[Jolly Roger]]s. 
-*[[1996]] - [[Nintendo]] releases the [[Nintendo 64]] in [[North America]]. 
-*[[2001]] - The ''[[Syracuse Herald-Journal]]'', a [[U.S.]] [[newspaper]] dating back to [[1839]], ceases publication. 
-*[[2003]] - [[Hurricane Juan]] makes landfall at [[Nova Scotia]]. 
-*[[2004]] - The [[asteroid]] [[4179 Toutatis]] passes within four lunar distances of [[Earth]]. 
-* 2004 - The [[Burt Rutan]] [[Ansari X Prize]] entry ''[[SpaceShipOne]]'' performed a successful spaceflight, the first of two needed to win the prize. 
-*[[2005]] - [[US Senate]] confirms [[John Roberts]] to be the next [[Chief Justice of the United States]]. 
-* 2005 - Amnesty referendum in [[Algeria]]. 
-*[[2006]] - [[United States House of Representatives|US Representative]] [[Mark Foley]] resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails to house pages were introduced. 
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  1. Michelangelo Antonioni
  2. Miguel de Cervantes
  3. International movement for an imaginist Bauhaus
  4. Émile Zola
  5. François Boucher
  6. Charles Addams
  7. Andrew Dice Clay
  8. Tintoretto
  9. Fritz Kahn
  10. Carson McCullers
  • Caravaggio
  • Paul Féval
  • Roy Lichtenstein



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