
President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru, resulting in a constitutional crisis.
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President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru, resulting in a constitutional crisis.
SourceA 7.6 MW earthquake struck off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 1,115 and impacting an estimated 1.2 million people.
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The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published controversial editorial cartoons depicting Muhammad, sparking protests across the Islamic world by many who viewed them as Islamophobic and blasphemous.
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Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah was shot dead in the Gaza Strip; the Israel Defense Forces initially accepted responsibility but retracted it five years later.
SourceThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses in the Internet, was incorporated.
SourceThe Boeing AH-64 Apache (example pictured), the primary attack helicopter for a number of countries, made its first flight.
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American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California.
SourceNBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.
SourceSecond World War: General Władysław Sikorski (pictured) became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
SourceAdolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany.
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Times Square Theater (pictured) opened on Broadway with a production of The Mirage, a play written by its owner, Edgar Selwyn.
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Nestor Makhno and Fedir Shchus led insurgents to successfully ambush the Central Powers that occupied southern Ukraine during World War I.
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The Vulcan Street Plant in Appleton, Wisconsin, the first hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, went online.
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Sue Takafusa, a retainer of the Ōuchi clan in western Japan, led a coup against the daimyō Ōuchi Yoshitaka, leading to the latter's forced suicide.
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An Anglo-Breton army defeated a far larger Franco-Breton force in the first land battle of the Hundred Years' War.
SourceA violent earthquake struck the Caucasus near Ganja, killing up to an estimated 300,000 people.
SourceMuslim conquest of Transoxiana: Türgesh tribesmen attacked and captured the exposed baggage train of the Umayyad army, sent ahead of the main force.
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