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Historical Events

The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.

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  • Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
  • Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic “March Against Death”.
  • Intel releases the world’s first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
  • René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
  • A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
  • A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
  • Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognized only by Turkey.
  • A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
  • The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
  • Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver’s Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
  • In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
  • In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.

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  • Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
  • The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
  • Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
  • The Communist People’s Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
  • A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
  • Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
  • Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
  • The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. Additional bombings follow on November 20.
  • Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
  • Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world’s largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
  • Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
  • Four people are killed and 16 others are injured in the Midland train crash after a Union Pacific train struck a parade float in Midland, Texas.

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