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1. 2nd October 1187: Saladin captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders after a lengthy siege

   Gepubliceerd: 2-10-2024
2. 1st October 1971: Walt Disney World officially opens it doors to the public in Orlando, Florida

   Gepubliceerd: 1-10-2024
3. 30th September 1520: Suleiman the Magnificent becomes sultan of the Ottoman Empire

   Gepubliceerd: 30-9-2024
4. 29th September 1829: The Metropolitan Police begins operating in London

   Gepubliceerd: 29-9-2024
5. 28th September 1924: First aerial circumnavigation of the globe completed by a team from the United States Army Air Service

   Gepubliceerd: 28-9-2024
6. 27th September 1590: Pope Urban VII dies, ending the the shortest papal reign in history

   Gepubliceerd: 27-9-2024
7. 26th September 1923: Gustav Stresemann of Germany ends passive resistance in the Ruhr

   Gepubliceerd: 26-9-2024
8. 25th September 1956: Inauguration TAT-1, the first transatlantic telephone cable

   Gepubliceerd: 25-9-2024
9. 24th September 1946: ‘Containment’ first suggested to President Truman in a report by Clark Clifford and George Elsey

   Gepubliceerd: 24-9-2024
10. 23rd September 1889: Nintendo founded in Kyoto, Japan, to produce playing cards

    Gepubliceerd: 23-9-2024
11. 22nd September 1980: Start of the Iran-Iraq War that lasted on for nearly eight years

    Gepubliceerd: 22-9-2024
12. 21st September 1915: Cecil Chubb, Stonehenge’s last private owner, wins it at auction

    Gepubliceerd: 21-9-2024
13. 20th September 1946: First Cannes International Film Festival begins at the former Casino

    Gepubliceerd: 20-9-2024
14. 19th September 1879: The Blackpool Illuminations turned on for the first time

    Gepubliceerd: 19-9-2024
15. 18th September 1931: The Manchurian Crisis begins after Japanese forces bomb the South Manchuria Railway

    Gepubliceerd: 18-9-2024
16. 17th September 1859: Joshua Norton declares himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States

    Gepubliceerd: 17-9-2024
17. 16th September 1979: Two families escape from East Germany in a homemade hot air balloon

    Gepubliceerd: 16-9-2024
18. 15th September 1440: Gilles de Rais is arrested and later convicted as one of the world’s earliest serial killers

    Gepubliceerd: 15-9-2024
19. 14th September 1959: The USSR sends the first man-made object to the Moon’s surface

    Gepubliceerd: 14-9-2024
20. 13th September 1848: Phineas Gage survives an accident in which an explosion propels a large iron bar completely through his head

    Gepubliceerd: 13-9-2024