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1333 - Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.
1429 - Joan of Arc liberated Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
1501 - Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII's wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother – they would later marry.
1576 - Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city is nearly destroyed).
1677 - The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange. They would later jointly reign as William and Mary.
1737 - The Teatro di San Carlo is inaugurated.
1783 - W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 receives its première performance in Linz, Austria.
1791 - The Western Confederacy of American Indians win a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
1825 - The Erie Canal is completed with Governor DeWitt Clinton performing the Wedding of The Waters ceremony in New York Harbour.
1834 - The Delta Upsilon Fraternity is established at Williams College Massachusetts.
1839 - The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
1852 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
1861 - The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville – Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
1889 - Menelek of Shoa obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the Ethiopian nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned emperor.
1890 - City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
1918 - World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy.
1918 - The German Revolution begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
1921 - The Sturmabteilung or SA is formally formed by Adolf Hitler
1921 - Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
1921 - The Italian unknown soldier is buried in the Altare della Patria (Fatherland Altar) in Rome.
1922 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected as the first female governor in the United States.
1939 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
1942 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein – Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
1944 - World War II: Bitola Liberation Day
1952 - The United States government establishes the National Security Agency.
1955 - After being totally destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio.
1956 - Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
1962 - In a test of the Nike-Hercules air defense missile, Shot Dominic-Tightrope is successfully detonated 69,000 feet above Johnston Island. It would also be the last atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States.
1966 - Two-thirds of Florence, Italy is submerged as the Arno river floods; together with the contemporaneous flood of the Po River in northern Italy, this leads to 113 deaths, 30,000 made homeless, and the destruction of numerous Renaissance artworks and books.
1970 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
1970 - Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
1973 - The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
1979 - Iran hostage crisis begins: a group of Iranians, mostly students, invades the United States embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
1984 - Dell Computers is founded as PC's Limited.
1986 - Chief Justice Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by the electorate from the Supreme Court of California for their opposition to capital punishment.
1989 - The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.
1993 - A China Airlines Boeing 747 overruns Runway 13 at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport while landing during a typhoon, injuring 22 people.
1994 - San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
1995 - Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli.
2002 - Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.
2008 - Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.

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Union des Comores, الإتـحـاد القـمـري, Al-Ittihad al-Kumuri, Udzima wa Komori
Union of the Comoros - FlagUnion of the Comoros - Coat of arms
Union of the Comoros - Location
Capital: Moroni
Official languages: Arabic, Comorian, French
Government: Republic
Currency: Comoro Franc (KMF)
Population: 671 247
Area: 2 170 km²
Religion: Islam
Time Zone: UTC +3
Auto Code: COM
Internet TLD: .km
Calling code: +269
Corporate Income Tax: 50%
Personal Income Tax: 30%
Value Added Tax: 10%
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