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On This Day

• 2013 A lone gunman fatally shot twelve people and injured three others at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C.
Washington Navy Yard shootingNaval Sea Systems Command
• 2007 Seventeen Iraqi civilians were shot and killed by Academi guards in Baghdad.
Nisour Square massacreBaghdad
• 1992 The British pound was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday, and suffered a major devaluation.
Pound sterlingEuropean Exchange Rate MechanismBlack WednesdayDevaluation
• 1990 Construction of the Northern Xinjiang railway (terminus pictured) was completed between Ürümqi South and Alashankou, linking the railway lines of China and Kazakhstan and adding a sizeable portion to the Eurasian Land Bridge.
Northern Xinjiang railwayÜrümqi South railway stationAlashankou railway stationEurasian Land Bridge
• 1982 A Lebanese militia under the direct command of Elie Hobeika carried out a massacre in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila, killing at least 460 civilians.
Elie HobeikaPalestiniansSabra and Shatila massacre
• 1979 Eight people escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a home-made hot air balloon.
East Germany balloon escapeEast GermanyWest GermanyHot air balloon
• 1979 Eight people escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a home-made hot air balloon.
East Germany balloon escapeEast GermanyWest GermanyHot air balloon
• 1975 The prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 (example pictured), one of the fastest combat jets in the world, made its maiden flight.
Mikoyan MiG-31
• 1963 Malaysia was formed as an independent nation from the Federation of Malaya, the Colony of Singapore, the Crown Colony of North Borneo, and the Crown Colony of Sarawak.
MalaysiaFederation of MalayaColony of SingaporeCrown Colony of North BorneoCrown Colony of Sarawak
• 1961 Typhoon Nancy, which possibly had the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, made landfall in Muroto, Japan.
Typhoon Nancy (1961)Tropical cycloneMuroto, Kōchi
• 1961 The U.S. National Hurricane Research Project sought to weaken Hurricane Esther by seeding it with silver iodide, leading to the establishment of Project Stormfury.
National Hurricane Research ProjectHurricane EstherCloud seedingSilver iodideProject Stormfury
• 1940 Second World War: Italian forces captured the town of Sidi Barrani, but their invasion of Egypt progressed no further.
World War IISidi BarraniItalian invasion of Egypt
• 1920 A bomb in a horse-drawn wagon exploded in front of 23 Wall Street in New York City, killing 38 people and injuring several hundred others.
Wall Street bombing23 Wall Street
• 1844 Felix Mendelssohn completed the score of his Violin Concerto, his final concerto.
Felix MendelssohnViolin Concerto (Mendelssohn)Concerto
• 1822 French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" read to the Academy of Sciences, reported a direct refraction experiment verifying David Brewster's hypothesis that photoelasticity (as we now call it) is stress-induced birefringence.
Augustin-Jean FresnelFrench Academy of SciencesDavid BrewsterPhotoelasticityBirefringence
• 1776 American Revolutionary War: American colonists defeated British troops at the Battle of Harlem Heights (depicted) on the island of Manhattan.
American Revolutionary WarBattle of Harlem HeightsManhattan
• 681 At the Third Council of Constantinople, Pope Honorius I was posthumously excommunicated, with his support for monothelitism deemed to be heretical.
Third Council of ConstantinoplePope Honorius IExcommunicationMonothelitismHeresy