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- 2006
Montenegro declares its independence.
- 1989
An explosion of gas from a leaking pipeline engulfs two passenger trains on the Trans-Siberian railway in Ural Mountains in Russia killing 575 people.
- 1977
Bob Marley and the Wailers release their classic album Exodus.
- 1968
In America, Radical feminist writer Valerie Solanas shoots artist Andy Warhol. Warhol survives the attack and Solanas is sentenced to three years in prison.
- 1940
The Luftwaffe bomb Paris killing 254 people.
- 1098
After a five month siege during the First Crusade, the Crusaders capture the city of Antioch (in modern day Turkey).
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