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===1901–present=== *[[1917]] – [[World War I]]: The [[Battle of Broodseinde]] is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders. *[[1918]] – World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and [[T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion|destroys a Shell Loading Plant]] in New Jersey. *[[1920]] – The [[Mannerheim League for Child Welfare]], a Finnish [[non-governmental organization]], is founded on the initiative of [[Sophie Mannerheim]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hs.fi/kaupunki/helsinki/art-2000006380719.html|title=Sophie Mannerheim käveli Kalliossa ja järkyttyi: Sitten hän keksi ovelan juonen, jolla koko Suomi saatiin syytämään apua äärimmäisessä köyhyydessä eläville lapsille|first=Marjaana|last=Varmavuori|work=[[Helsingin Sanomat]]|date=January 22, 2020|access-date=September 15, 2021|language=fi}}</ref> *[[1925]] – [[Great Syrian Revolt]]: Rebels led by [[Fawzi al-Qawuqji]] [[1925 Hama uprising|captured]] [[Hama]] from the [[Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon|French Mandate of Syria]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Khoury |first1=Philip Shukry |title=Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism, 1920–1945 |date=2014 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-5839-2 |page=171 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tvP_AwAAQBAJ&dq=Qawuqji+October+1925&pg=PA171 |access-date=20 April 2021 |language=en |quote=On 4 October 1925, a rebellious captain in the Syrian Legion, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, led a mixed force of dissident Legionnaires ...}}</ref> * 1925 – ''[[Finnish torpedo boat S2|S2]]'', a Finnish [[Finnish S class torpedo boat|''Sokol'' class]] [[torpedo boat]], sinks during a fierce storm near the coast of [[Pori]] in the [[Gulf of Bothnia]], taking with it the whole crew of 53.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kaslib.fi/MARE/HIST/s2_1.htm|title=Torpedovene S2:n tuho 4.10.1925|first=Antero|last=Honkasalo|publisher=[[Wayback Machine]]|date=2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060830015005/http://www.kaslib.fi/MARE/HIST/s2_1.htm|access-date=October 4, 2021|archive-date=2006-08-30|language=fi}}</ref> *[[1927]] – [[Gutzon Borglum]] begins sculpting [[Mount Rushmore]]. *[[1936]] – The [[Metropolitan Police]] and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the [[Battle of Cable Street]]. *[[1941]] – Norman Rockwell's [[Willie Gillis]] character debuts on the cover of ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]''. *[[1957]] – ''[[Sputnik 1]]'' becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burgess |first1=Colin |last2=Hall |first2=Rex |title=The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact |date=2009 |publisher=Springer |location=Berlin |isbn=9780387848235 |page=1 |lccn=2008935694}}</ref> *[[1958]] – The current [[constitution of France]] is adopted. *[[1960]] – An [[Eastern Air Lines Flight 375|airliner crashes]] on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people. *[[1963]] – [[Hurricane Flora]] kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti. *[[1965]] – [[Pope Paul VI]] begins the first papal visit to the Americas. *[[1966]] – [[Basutoland]] becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho. *[[1967]] – [[Omar Ali Saifuddien III]] of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son. *[[1983]] – [[Richard Noble]] sets a new land speed record of {{Convert|633.468|mph|km/h}} at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. *[[1985]] – The [[Free Software Foundation]] is founded. *[[1991]] – The [[Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty]] is opened for signature. *[[1992]] – The [[Rome General Peace Accords]] end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique. * 1992 – [[El Al Flight 1862]] crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground. *[[1993]] – [[Battle of Mogadishu (1993)|Battle of Mogadishu]] occurs killing 18 U.S. Special Forces, two [[UN Peacekeepers]] and at least 600 Somalian militia men and civilians. * 1993 – Tanks [[1993 Russian constitutional crisis|bombard the Russian parliament]], while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside. *[[1997]] – The [[1997 Loomis Fargo Robbery in North Carolina|second largest cash robbery]] in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina. *[[2001]] – [[Siberia Airlines Flight 1812]] crashes after being struck by an errant Ukrainian missile. Seventy-eight people are killed. *[[2003]] – The [[Maxim restaurant suicide bombing]] in Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs. *[[2004]] – ''[[SpaceShipOne]]'' wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight. *[[2006]] – [[WikiLeaks]] is launched. *[[2010]] – The [[Ajka alumina plant accident|Ajka plant accident]] in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers. *[[2017]] – Joint Nigerien-American [[Special Forces (United States Army)|Special Forces]] are [[Tongo Tongo ambush|ambushed]] by [[Islamic State in the Greater Sahara|Islamic State]] militants outside the village of [[Tongo Tongo]].
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