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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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| 2009 November 3 |
| | | The Czech Republic becomes the final member state of the European Union to approve the Lisbon Treaty, completing the process of ratification | |
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| 2009 November 20 |
| | | CERN restarts the Large Hadron Collider, which has been shut down since a serious failure in Sepember 2008 | |
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| 2010 November 17 |
| | | CERN announces its successful production and brief capture of atoms of antihydrogen, the first observed example of antimatter | |
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| 2012 July 4 |
| | | CERN announces the discovery of a new particle, possibly the much anticipated Higgs boson, in the Large Hadron Collider | |
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| 2012 October 14 |
| | | Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, jumping from a balloon 24 miles up, becomes the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall | |
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| 2013 March 14 |
| | | Scientists at CERN announce that the recently discovered particle is beyond doubt the Standard Model of the Higg's boson | |
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