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1939
- Birth of Nông Đức Mạnh, the leader of Vietnam and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 2001 to 2011.
1973
- Salvador Allende, socialist and elected President of Chile in 1970, is deposed and killed during a US and UK-backed fascist coup that puts Augusto Pinochet in power.
2001
- The September 11 attacks, commonly shortened to 9/11, occur in the United States, which was later used by the U.S. as justification to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.