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1577
- Francis Drake embarks from Plymouth, England on his circumnavigation of the world.
1642
1920
- Kaysone Phomvihane, first General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, is born in Savannakhet, French Indochina.
1937
- The city of Nanjing falls to the Japanese Empire, resulting in the Nanjing Massacre.
1938
- KZ Neuengamme is opened in Hamburg, Nazi Germany.
1949
2003
- Saddam Hussein is captured by the United States in the Iraq War.