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1419 - John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
1608 - John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
1776 - American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
1798 - At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
1813 - The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
1823 - Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
1846 - Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
1858 - George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1897 - Lattimer Massacre – a sheriff's posse kills twenty unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
1898 - Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
1919 - Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
1927 - France had its first Davis Cup win, though it had competed since 1905.
1932 - The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
1939 - World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.
1939 - World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
1942 - World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
1943 - World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
1951 - United Kingdom began an economic boycott of Iran.
1961 - Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari.
1963 - 20 African-American students enter public schools in Alabama.
1967 - The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
1972 - The United States loses its first international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
1976 - A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
1977 - Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
1990 - The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire – the largest church in Africa is consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
2000 - The musical Cats closes on Broadway.
2001 - Portland International Airport opens three new concorses (A, B, and C) to the public, as well as a MAX Light Rail terminus station
2001 - Charles Ingram cheats his way into winning one million pounds on a British version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
2002 - Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations.
2003 - Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
2007 - Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.
2008 - The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
இலங்கை சனநாயக சோஷலிசக் குடியரசு
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka - FlagDemocratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka - Coat of arms
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka - Location
Capital: Sri Jayawardenepura
Official languages: Sinhala, Tamil
Government: Socialist republic
Currency: Sri Lanka Rupee (LKR)
Population: 21 000 000
Area: 65 610 km²
Religion: Islam
Time Zone: UTC +5:30
Auto Code: CL
Internet TLD: .lk
Calling code: +94
Corporate Income Tax: 35%
Personal Income Tax: 5-35%
Value Added Tax: 12%
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