1994 – In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held.1988 – Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.1985 – Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.1985 – Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
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1984 – San Juanico disaster : A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people. 1979 – Iran hostage crisis : Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran. 1977 – TAP Air Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131. 1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal. 1969 – Apollo program : Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon. 1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong. 1955 – National Review publishes its first issue. 1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III. 1952 – Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe. 1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations. 1944 – World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden. Roosevelt announces the sixth War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort. 1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg ( Lviv ), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt. 1942 – Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993. 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad : Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen. 1941 – World War II : Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. 1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures. 1912 – First Balkan War : The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia. 1911 – The Doom Bar in Cornwall claims two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain. 1885 – Serbo-Bulgarian War : Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia. 1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railroad, is opened. 1816 – Warsaw University is established. 1802 – The Garinagu arrive at British Honduras (present-day Belize ). 1794 – The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico ). 
1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before.636 – The Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq.The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer. 461 – Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
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