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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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| 1960 |
| | | 20-year-old Spanish tenor Placido Domingo sings his first major role, as Alfredo in La Traviata in the Mexican city of Monterrey | |
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| 1988 |
| | | Ayatollah Khomeini declares a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his Satanic Verses | |
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| 1989 |
| | | The USSR completes the phased withdrawal of its troops from Aghanistan | |
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