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★14 Apr 1909
Following a military revolt against the constitutional government, a mob began a massacre of Armenians in Adana Vilayet, Ottoman Empire.

★25 Mar 1911
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City killed more than 140 sweatshop workers, many of whom could not escape because the doors to the stairwells and exits had been locked.

★08 Mar 1924
Three violent explosions at a coal mine near Castle Gate, Utah, U.S., killed all 171 miners working there.

★10 Jan 1929
The Adventures of Tintin, a series of popular comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé, first appeared in a children's supplement to the Belgian newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle.

★17 Jun 1940
Second World War: Britain's worst maritime disaster occurred when at least 3,000 people were killed as a result of the troopship RMS Lancastria's sinking by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.

★16 Apr 1947
American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch first described the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "cold war".

★24 Dec 1955
The NORAD Tracks Santa program began when children began calling the Continental Air Defense Command Center to inquire about Santa Claus' whereabouts due to a misprinted phone number.

★29 Oct 1966
Singaporean leftist opposition leader Chia Thye Poh was detained under the Internal Security Act, which allows for preventive detention, and held for 32 years.

★16 Nov 1967
Aeroflot Flight 2230 crashed after takeoff from Koltsovo Airport, Sverdlovsk, killing all 107 people aboard.

★01 Feb 1978
After having served 42 days in prison for the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl, Polish film director Roman Polanski fled the United States before the formal sentencing hearing.

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