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Australia

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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It has a land area of 7,688,287 km2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world, and is the world's flattest and driest inha…

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2024 Indian general election
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General elections were held in India from 19 April to 1 June 2024 in seven phases, to elect all 543 members of the Lok S…

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Cleopatra
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Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and the last active Hellenis…

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10 events
2010
Stephen_Timms
British politician Stephen Timms survived a murder attempt by an Islamic extremist during a constituency surgery.
2008
2008_UEFA_Cup_final
On the day of the UEFA Cup Final, violence erupted between football hooligan supporters of both teams and the Greater Manchester Police, resulting in 39 arrests and 39 injured officers.
1980
Salvadoran_Civil_War
Salvadoran Civil War: Refugees trying to flee El Salvador across the Sumpul River to Honduras were attacked by both Salvadoran and Honduran forces, resulting in at least 300 deaths.
1955
Cold_War
Cold War: Eight Eastern Bloc countries signed a mutual defense treaty to establish the Warsaw Pact.
1951
Talyllyn_Railway
Trains ran on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since its preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.
1943
World_War_II
Second World War: Australian Hospital Ship Centaur was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, killing 268 people aboard.
1940
World_War_II
World War II: The bulk of Dutch forces surrendered to the German Wehrmacht, ending the Battle of the Netherlands.
1939
Lima
In Lima, Peru, Lina Medina became the youngest confirmed mother in history, giving birth at the age of five years, seven months and twenty-one days.
1931
Ådalen
Five people were killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers opened fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
1919
Harry_Hands
Sir Harry Hands, the mayor of Cape Town, performed the first public observance of a two-minute silence in remembrance of those killed in World War I.

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