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| 1400 |
Author Geoffrey Chaucer died in London. |
| 1760 |
Britain’s King George III succeeded his late grandfather, George II. |
| 1854 |
The English suffered heavy losses against Russia in the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. The battle inspired Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “Charge of the Light Brigade.” |
| 1881 |
Artist Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain.. |
| 1962 |
Author John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. |
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| 1971 |
The U.N. General Assembly voted to admit mainland China and expel Taiwan. |
| 1983 |
A U.S.-led force invaded Grenada at the order of President Ronald Reagan, who said the action was needed to protect U.S. citizens there. |
| 1986 |
The New York Mets won Game 6 of the World Series in the 10th inning when a routine ground ball went through Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner’s legs.
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| 1994 |
Susan Smith of Union, S.C., claimed that a black carjacker had driven off with her two sons. She later confessed to drowning the children and was convicted of murder. |
| 2001 |
Microsoft released the Windows XP operating system. |
| 2002 |
Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., 58, was killed in a plane crash in northern Minnesota. |
| 2003 |
Florida State’s Bobby Bowden became the winningest coach in major college football history with his 339th victory as the Seminoles beat Wake Forest 48-24. |
| 2005 |
U.S. military deaths in Iraq reached 2,000. |
