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===1901–present===
*[[1910]] &ndash; [[America (airship)|Airship ''America'']] is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
*[[1923]] &ndash; The [[German Rentenmark]] is introduced in Germany to counter [[hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic]].
*[[1928]] &ndash; The airship ''[[LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin|Graf Zeppelin]]'' completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at [[Lakehurst, New Jersey]], United States.
*[[1932]] &ndash; Tata Airlines (later to become [[Air India]]) makes its first flight.
*[[1939]] &ndash; The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed [[LaGuardia Airport]]) is dedicated.
*[[1940]] &ndash; President [[Lluís Companys]] of Catalonia is executed by the [[Francoist]] government.
*[[1944]] &ndash; World War II: Germany [[Operation Panzerfaust|replaces the Hungarian government]] after Hungary announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.<ref>{{cite book|author=Randolph L. Braham|title=The Destruction of Hungarian Jewry: A Documentary Account|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__tmAAAAMAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Pro Arte for the World Federation of Hungarian Jews|page=lxix}}</ref>
*[[1951]] &ndash; Mexican chemist [[Luis E. Miramontes]] completes the synthesis of [[norethisterone]], the basis of an early oral contraceptive.
*[[1954]] &ndash; [[Hurricane Hazel]] devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.
*[[1956]] &ndash; [[FORTRAN]], the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
*[[1965]] &ndash; Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the [[Catholic Worker Movement]], resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
*[[1966]] &ndash; The [[Black Panther Party]] is created by [[Huey P. Newton]] and [[Bobby Seale]].
*[[1970]] &ndash; During the construction of Australia's [[West Gate Bridge]], a span of the bridge falls and kills 35 workers. The incident is the country's worst industrial accident to this day.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Carey |first1=Adam |title=Forty years on, the West Gate Bridge collapse still looms large |url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/forty-years-on-the-west-gate-bridge-collapse-still-looms-large-20101015-16nl0.html |access-date=October 16, 2020 |agency=The Age |date=October 16, 2010}}</ref>
*[[1979]] &ndash; Supporters of the Malta Labour Party [[Black Monday (Malta)|ransack and destroy]] the ''Times of Malta'' building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.
*  1979   &ndash; A [[1979 Salvadoran coup d'état|coup d'état]] in El Salvador overthrows President [[Carlos Humberto Romero]] and begins the 12 year-long [[Salvadoran Civil War]].<ref name=beverley>{{cite journal|last1=Beverley|first1=John|title=El Salvador|date=1982|journal=Social Text|language=en|publisher=Duke University Press|issue=5|pages=55–72|doi=10.2307/466334|jstor=466334}}</ref>
*[[1987]] &ndash; [[Aero Trasporti Italiani Flight 460]] crashes near Conca di Crezzo, [[Italy]], killing all 37 people on board.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident ATR 42-312 I-ATRH Conca di Crezzo|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19871015-0|access-date=2021-10-14|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1987]] &ndash; A [[1987 Burkina Faso coup d'état|coup d'état]] in Burkina Faso overthrows and kills then President [[Thomas Sankara]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Wilkins|first1=Michael|title=The Death of Thomas Sankara and the Rectification of the People's Revolution in Burkina Faso|date=1989|journal=[[African Affairs]]|language=en|publisher=Oxford University Press|volume=88|number=352|pages=375–388|doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098188 |jstor=722692}}</ref>
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Wayne Gretzky]] becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the [[NHL]].
*[[1990]] &ndash; Soviet Union leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] is awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
*[[1991]] &ndash; The "[[Oh-My-God particle]]", an [[ultra-high-energy cosmic ray]] measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a [[particle accelerator]], is observed at the [[University of Utah]] [[High Resolution Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector|HiRes]] observatory in [[Dugway Proving Ground]], [[Utah]].
*  1991   &ndash; The leaders of the [[Baltic States]], [[Arnold Rüütel]] of [[Estonia]], [[Anatolijs Gorbunovs]] of [[Latvia]] and [[Vytautas Landsbergis]] of [[Lithuania]], signed the [[OSCE]] Final Act in [[Helsinki]], Finland.<ref>''Mitä Missä Milloin, Kansalaisen vuosikirja 1993'', p. 21. Helsinki: [[Otava (publisher)|Otava]], 1992. ISBN 951-1-12269-X. (in Finnish)</ref>
*[[1994]] &ndash; The United States, under the [[Clinton administration]], returns Haiti's first democratically elected president, [[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]], to the island.<ref>{{cite book|title=Military Medical Ethics: Sect. IV. Medical ethics in the military. Medical ethics on the battlefield: the crucible of military medical ethics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dUpsAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA809|year=2003|publisher=Office of the Surgeon General, United States Army|isbn=978-0-16-050502-7|page=809}}</ref>
*[[1997]] &ndash; The [[Cassini–Huygens|Cassini probe]] launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
*[[2001]] &ndash; NASA's [[Galileo spacecraft]] passes within {{convert|112|mi|km}} of Jupiter's moon Io.
*[[2003]] &ndash; China launches [[Shenzhou 5]], its first crewed space mission.
*[[2006]] &ndash; The 6.7 {{M|w|link=y}} [[2006 Kiholo Bay earthquake|Kiholo Bay earthquake]] rocks Hawaii, causing property damage, injuries, landslides, power outages, and the closure of Honolulu International Airport.
*[[2007]] &ndash; Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 [[2007 New Zealand police raids|anti-terrorism raids]].
*[[2008]] &ndash; The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] closes down 733.08 points, or 7.87%, the [[Black Monday (1987)|second worst percentage drop]] in the Dow's history.
*[[2013]] &ndash; The 7.2 {{M|w|link=y}} [[2013 Bohol earthquake|Bohol earthquake]] strikes the Philippines. At least 215 were killed.
*[[2016]] &ndash; One hundred and ninety-seven nations amend the [[Montreal Protocol]] to include a phase-out of hydrofluorocarbons.
*[[2018]] &ndash; 13-year-old American girl, [[Kidnapping of Jayme Closs|Jayme Closs]], is kidnapped from her [[Barron, Wisconsin]] home after her parents were both murdered.<ref>{{cite news |title=Search continues for missing northwestern Wisconsin girl Jayme Closs |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/10/20/search-continues-for-missing-northwestern-wisconsin-girl-jayme-closs |access-date=May 12, 2021 |work=MPR News |date=October 20, 2018}}</ref>