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• 21st anniversary of Prince Zeid Bin Shaker death

• New Orleans hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005

• Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 ce

• William Wallace executed in 1305

• 54th anniversary of Al-Aqsa Mosque burning

• Japanese airfield on Guadalcanal seized by Allies

• Columbus's first transatlantic voyage begun

• Telstar 1 launched in 1962

• Korean War begun in 1950

• Missing Titanic sub running out of oxygen

• Felipe VI becomes king of Spain after Juan Carlos I abdicates

• War of 1812 begun

• Election of Boris Yeltsin

• Sweden celebrates national day

• World Telecommunication Day

• International Day of Living Together in Peace

• First US space station, is launched in 1973

• World War II in Europe ended in 1945

• Theatre Royal opened in 1663

• 1953 Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize

• Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister of Britain in 1979