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===1901–present=== *[[1903]] – The {{ship|Russian battleship|Slava||2}}, the last of the five {{sclass|Borodino|battleship|1}}s, is launched. *[[1907]] – The [[Quebec Bridge]] collapses during construction, killing 75 workers. *[[1910]] – The [[Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910]], also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the [[Korea under Japanese rule|period of Japanese rule]] in Korea. *[[1911]] – [[Ishi]], considered the last [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern [[California]]. * 1911 – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the [[Royal Canadian Navy]].<ref>Gilbert Norman Tucker ''The Naval Service of Canada: Its Official History'' Ottawa, 1952</ref> *[[1912]] – A [[1912 China typhoon|typhoon strikes China]], killing at least 50,000 people.<ref name="NOAA">{{cite web|publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|title=The Worst Natural Disasters by Death Toll|year=2009|access-date=January 2, 2012|url=http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/noaa_documents/NOAA_related_docs/death_toll_natural_disasters.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/noaa_documents/NOAA_related_docs/death_toll_natural_disasters.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref> *[[1914]] – [[World War I]]: Start of the [[Battle of St. Quentin (1914)|Battle of St. Quentin]] in which the French [[Fifth Army (France)|Fifth Army]] counter-attacked the invading Germans at [[Saint-Quentin, Aisne]]. *[[1915]] – US Navy salvage divers raise {{USS|F-4|SS-23|2}}, the first U.S. [[submarine]] sunk in an accident. *[[1916]] – The United States passes the [[Jones Law (Philippines)|Philippine Autonomy Act]]. *[[1918]] – World War I: [[Bapaume]] taken by the [[New Zealand Division]] in the [[Hundred Days Offensive]]. *[[1930]] – The last 36 remaining inhabitants of [[St Kilda, Scotland|St Kilda]] are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland. *[[1941]] – [[World War II]]: [[Tallinn]], the capital of [[Estonia]], is occupied by [[Nazi Germany]] following an occupation by the [[Soviet Union]]. *[[1943]] – World War II: [[Occupation of Denmark|German-occupied Denmark]] scuttles most of its [[Royal Danish Navy|navy]]; Germany dissolves the Danish government. *[[1944]] – World War II: [[Slovak National Uprising]] takes place as 60,000 [[Slovaks|Slovak]] troops turn against the [[Nazism|Nazi]]s. *[[1948]] – [[Northwest Airlines Flight 421]] crashes in [[Fountain City, Wisconsin]], killing all 37 aboard.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Martin 2-0-2 NC93044 Winona, WI |url=https://www.aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19480829-0 |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=www.aviation-safety.net}}</ref> *[[1949]] – [[Soviet atomic bomb project]]: The [[Soviet Union]] tests its first [[atomic bomb]], known as ''[[RDS-1|First Lightning]]'' or ''Joe 1'', at [[Semipalatinsk Test Site|Semipalatinsk]], Kazakhstan. *[[1950]] – [[Korean War]]: [[British Commonwealth Forces Korea]] arrives to bolster the US presence. *[[1952]] – American [[experimental music|experimental composer]] [[John Cage]]'s ''[[4’33”]]'' premieres at [[Maverick Concert Hall]], played by [[American people|American]] pianist [[David Tudor]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Ross |first=Alex |date=4 October 2010 |title=Searching for Silence: John Cage's art of noise |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/04/searching-for-silence |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |location=New York |publisher=[[Condé Nast]] |access-date=}}</ref> *[[1958]] – [[United States Air Force Academy]] opens in [[Colorado Springs, Colorado]]. *[[1960]] – [[Air France Flight 343]] crashes on approach to [[Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport|Yoff Airport]] in Senegal, killing all 63 aboard.<ref name="asn">{{cite web |title=ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation F-BHBC Dakar-Yoff Airport (DKR) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19600829-0 |access-date=4 June 2021 |website=Aviation Safety Network |publisher=Flight Safety Foundation}}</ref> *[[1965]] – The [[Gemini 5|Gemini V]] spacecraft returns to [[Earth]], landing in the Atlantic Ocean. *[[1966]] – [[The Beatles]] perform their last concert before paying fans at [[Candlestick Park]] in [[San Francisco]]. * 1966 – Leading Egyptian thinker [[Sayyid Qutb]] is executed for plotting the assassination of President [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]]. *[[1970]] – [[Chicano Moratorium]] against the [[Vietnam War]], [[East Los Angeles, California]]. Police riot kills three people, including journalist [[Rubén Salazar]]. *[[1975]] – [[Tacnazo|El Tacnazo]]: [[Francisco Morales Bermúdez]], Peruvian [[President of the Council of Ministers of Peru|Prime Minister]] carries out a [[Tacnazo|coup d'état]] in the city of [[Tacna]], forcing the sitting [[President of Peru]], [[Juan Velasco Alvarado]], to resign and assuming his place as the new [[President of Peru|President]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Osorio Soto |first=Gary M. |date=August 2021 |title=El Tacnazo: Crónica De Una Llamada Que Cambió La Historia |url=https://www.academia.edu/52576698 |journal=Revista de la Asociación de Estudios Históricos de Tacna |volume=1 |issue=3 |page=9 |via=Academia}}</ref> *[[1982]] – [[Meitnerium]], a synthetic [[chemical element]] with the [[atomic number]] 109, is first synthesized at the [[Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung]] in [[Darmstadt]], Germany. *[[1987]] – [[Evangelical Baptist Church of Korea#Odaeyang mass suicide|Odaeyang mass suicide]]: Thirty-three individuals linked to a [[Evangelical Baptist Church of Korea|religious cult]] are found dead in the attic of a cafeteria in [[Yongin]], South Korea. Investigators attribute their deaths to a [[murder-suicide]] pact.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Renfrew |first=Barry |date=29 August 1987 |title=33 Bodies Found In Attic After Apparent Murder-Suicide Pact |work=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://apnews.com/article/ad93eedacb89524018ecbec4a1cf9f5c |url-status=live |access-date=29 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516181223/https://apnews.com/article/ad93eedacb89524018ecbec4a1cf9f5c |archive-date=16 May 2022}}</ref> *[[1991]] – [[Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union]] suspends all activities of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Soviet Communist Party]]. * 1991 – [[Libero Grassi]], an Italian businessman from [[Palermo]], is killed by the [[Sicilian Mafia]] after taking a solitary stand against their [[extortion]] demands. *[[1996]] – [[Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801]], a [[Tupolev Tu-154]], crashes into a mountain on the [[Arctic]] island of [[Spitsbergen]], killing all 141 aboard. *[[1997]] – [[Netflix]] is launched as an internet [[DVD]] rental service. * 1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria [[Armed Islamic Group|GIA]] in the [[Rais massacre]], [[Algeria]]. *[[1998]] – Eighty people are killed when [[Cubana de Aviación Flight 389]] crashes during a [[rejected takeoff]] from the [[Old Mariscal Sucre International Airport]] in [[Quito]], Ecuador.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev Tu-154M CU-T1264 Quito-Mariscal Sucre Airport (UIO)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19980829-0|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-27|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050307092250/http://aviation-safety.net:80/database/record.php?id=19980829-0 |archive-date=2005-03-07 }}</ref> *[[2001]] – Four people are killed when [[Binter Mediterráneo Flight 8261]] crashes into the [[N-340 road (Spain)|N-340 highway]] near [[Málaga Airport]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident CASA CN-235-200 EC-FBC Málaga Airport (AGP) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20010829-0 |access-date=2022-08-28 |website=aviation-safety.net}}</ref> *[[2003]] – [[Sayed]] [[Ayatollah]] [[Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim]], the [[Shia Muslim]] leader in [[Iraq]], is [[assassination|assassin]]ated in a [[Imam Ali mosque bombing|terrorist bombing]], along with nearly 100 worshippers as they leave a [[mosque]] in [[Najaf]]. *[[2005]] – [[Hurricane Katrina]] devastates much of the [[U.S. Gulf Coast]] from [[Louisiana]] to the [[Florida Panhandle]], [[Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans|killing up to 1,836 people and causing $125 billion in damage]]. *[[2012]] – At least 26 Chinese miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the [[Xiaojiawan coal mine disaster|Xiaojiawan coal mine]], located at [[Panzhihua|Panzhihua, Sichuan Province]]. * 2012 – The [[2012 Summer Paralympics|XIV Paralympic Games]] open in [[London]], England, United Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite web |title=London 2012 |url=https://www.paralympic.org/london-2012 |access-date=29 August 2022 |website=International Paralympic Committee}}</ref> *[[2020]] – [[2020 Women's FA Community Shield]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.thefa.com/news/2020/aug/29/chelsea-manchester-city-womens-fa-community-shield-match-report-290820 |title= Millie Bright's stunner helps Chelsea beat Man City in women's Community Shield |date= 29 August 2020 |website= thefa.com |publisher= The Football Association |access-date= 16 September 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Sanders |first= Emma |date= 29 August 2020 |title= Chelsea 2-0 Man City in Women's Community Shield: Millie Bright stunner helps Blues win |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53894486 |work= BBC Sport |access-date= 16 September 2024}} </ref> *[[2022]] – [[Russo-Ukrainian War]]: Ukraine begins its [[2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive|southern counteroffensive]] in the [[Kherson Oblast]], eventually culminating in the [[Liberation of Kherson|liberation]] of the city of [[Kherson]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Kherson: Ukraine claims new push in Russian-held region|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62712299|author1=Sands, Leo|author2=Lukov, Yaroslav|website=BBC.com|publisher=BBC|date=August 30, 2022|access-date=February 13, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Ukrainian Forces Enter Kherson, a Strategic Prize, in a Blow to Putin|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/world/europe/kherson-ukraine-russia.html|author1=Kramer, Andrew E.|author2=Marc Santora|website=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 11, 2022|access-date=February 13, 2023}}</ref>
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