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1825

• The gentry tries to overthrow the Russian monarchy in a failed coup d'état called the Decembrist uprising.

1861

• 38 Native Dakota are hanged by the US Army in the United States' largest mass hanging in Mankato, Minnesota.

1893

• Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader Mao Zedong is born in Shaoshan, Hunan, Qing dynasty.

1941

• Franklin D. Roosevelt establishes Thanksgiving Day; a day that originally celebrated the massacre of 700 indigenous Pequot.

1948

• Soviet troops exit Korea in the Korean war.

1968

• Jose Maria Sison founds the Communist Party of the Philippines as a break from the PKP-1930.

1975

• Soviet Tu-144 supersonic passenger aircraft goes into service, making it the first of its kind.

1991

• The USSR is illegally dissolved in a bourgeois counter-revolution.

2012

• China introduces the world's longest high-speed rail route, connecting Beijing and Guangzhou.