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★04 Oct 1876
Texas A&M University opened as the first public institution of higher education in the U.S. state of Texas.

★29 Jan 1911
Mexican Revolution: The Magonista rebellion began when Mexican Liberal Party troops captured the town of Mexicali.

★04 Oct 1918
An ammunition plant in Sayreville, New Jersey, U.S., exploded, killing around 100 people and destroying more than 300 buildings.

★30 Jun 1922
The United States and the Dominican Republic signed an agreement that ended the former's occupation of the latter two years later.

★30 Nov 1936
English mathematician Alan Turing published details of the Turing machine, a basic abstract symbol-manipulating hypothetical device that can simulate the logic of any computer algorithm.

★19 Feb 1937
An attempt to assassinate Italian Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani in Addis Ababa failed, triggering a brutal crackdown on Ethiopians by Italian forces over the following three days.

★15 Jan 1943
The highest-capacity office building in the world, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense known as the Pentagon, was dedicated.

★28 Aug 1955
African-American teenager Emmett Till was murdered near Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American civil rights movement.

★13 Sep 1964
South Vietnamese Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Dương Văn Đức staged a coup attempt after junta leader Nguyễn Khánh demoted them.

★21 Feb 1965
Black nationalist Malcolm X was assassinated while giving a speech in New York City's Audubon Ballroom.

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