1908 – 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
1938 – Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
1950 – Clifford Odet’s “Country Girl” premieres in NYC
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon
1978 – Israel’s top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
1982 – IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankruptcy
2012 – 17 people are killed in a helicopter crash as a result of bad weather in Turkey
2015 – Portugal’s minority government is toppled by left-wing opposition 2 weeks after coming to power
2019 – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announces the discovery of a new oil field with an estimated 53 million barrels of oil in Khuzestan province
2020 – Ceasefire announced signed between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia ending military conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh region after over a month of fighting
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