Major Events
- 1911 - The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in Paris (recovered in 1913).
- 1945 - Subhas Chandra Bose ("Netaji") reportedly died in a plane crash in Taiwan.
- 1959 - Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States of America.
- 1986 - A gas cloud from Lake Nyos in Cameroon killed around 1,700 people.
- 1991 - Latvia declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
- 2017 - A total solar eclipse was visible across the United States, the first coast-to-coast eclipse since 1918.
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