1800 - The U.S. Library of Congress is created.
1877 - Russia goes to war with the Ottomans.
1915 - The Armenian Genocide begins.
1918 - The first tank battle occurs between the UK and Germany.
1957 - The Suez Canal is reopened.
1970 - The Gambia becomes a republic.
1993 - The IRA blows up a bomb in London, United Kingdom.
2004 - The U.S. lifts sanctions it had put on Libya 18 years prior.
2005 - Joseph Ratzinger becomes the pope.
2013 - Riots break out in China.
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