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- 2019
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom unanimously ruled that advice given by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Queen Elizabeth II that Parliament should be prorogued was unlawful.
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The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance.
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Thabo Mbeki resigns as president of South Africa.
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Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
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Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
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Norodom Sihanouk (pictured) became King of Cambodia with the restoration of the monarchy after a 23-year interregnum.
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The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.
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Dougal Haston and Doug Scott of the Southwest Face expedition became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by ascending one of its faces.
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Southwest Face expedition members become the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces, instead of using a ridge route.
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Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
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The Warren Commission released its report to the U.S. president, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
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The top-secret Clifford-Elsey Report on the Soviet Union is delivered to President Truman.
Read the background → - 1906
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
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Alfred Deakin became the second Australian prime minister, succeeding Edmund Barton, who left office to become a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
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Wilford Woodruff, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote the first draft of a manifesto that officially disavowed the future practice of plural marriage.
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Black Friday (1869): Gold prices plummet after United States President Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
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A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.
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The Judiciary Act of 1789 was signed into law, establishing the U.S. federal judiciary and setting the number of Supreme Court justices at six.
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The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act, creating the office of the Attorney General and federal judiciary system and ordering the composition of the Supreme Court.
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English Civil War: Royalists commanded by King Charles I suffered a significant defeat at the Battle of Rowton Heath.
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The Battle of Rowton Heath in England occurs, ending in a Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles I.
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