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| 1879 |
| | | A congress in Paris, with Ferdinand de Lesseps as president, decides to construct a canal from coast to coast in Panama | |
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| 1880 |
| | | Russian composer Alexander Borodin writes In the Steppes of Central Asia as part of the silver jubilee celebrations for Alexander II | |
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| 1890 |
| | | Henrik Ibsen publishes his play Hedda Gabler, with its powerfully manipulative central character, a year before it is first produced (in Germany) | |
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| 1908 |
| | | International outrage at Congo atrocities forces Belgium to annexe King Leopold's private colony | |
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| 1917 October 23 |
| | | Lenin persuades the Bolshevik central committee to vote for an armed insurrection | |
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| 1925 |
| | | The Central Committee of the USSR removes Trotsky from his influential post as War Commissar | |
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| 1937 |
| | | C.S. Forester's central character, Horatio Hornblower, features for the first time – in The Happy Return | |
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| 1940 |
| | | An assassin sent by Stalin kills the exiled Trotsky in his home in Mexico City | |
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| 1943 August 12 |
| | | On Hitler's orders, the SS rescue Mussolini from house arrest in the mountains of central Italy | |
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| 1953 |
| | | The first Soviet hydrogen bomb is successfully tested at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan | |
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