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14 September 2024

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Selected anniversaries

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2019 - Drone attacks on major processing facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais forced Saudi Arabia to cut more than half of its oil production.

2019 drone attack on Saudi oil processing facilities

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2015 - Physicists of the LIGO and Virgo projects first observed gravitational waves, the existence of which was predicted by Henri Poincaré in 1905.

Gravitational wave observatory site

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2007 - Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank received a liquidity support facility from the Bank of England, sparking a bank run—the United Kingdom's first in 150 years.

Worldwide economic crisis

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2003 - President Kumba Ialá (pictured) of Guinea-Bissau was deposed in a bloodless military coup.

President of Guinea-Bissau from 2000 to 2003

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1992 - The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be unconstitutional.

Unrecognized proto-state in the Balkans (1991–1996); now part of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Historical events

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2022 - Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The Queen's coffin is taken from Buckingham Palace, placed on a gun carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and moved in a procession to Westminster Hall for her lying in state over the next four days with the queue of mourners stretching for miles along the River Thames.

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2019 - Yemen's Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.

Country in West Asia

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2015 - The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.

2015 detection made by LIGO interferometers

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2008 - Aeroflot Flight 821, a Boeing 737-500, crashes into a section of the Trans-Siberian Railway while on approach to Perm International Airport, in Perm, Russia, killing all 88 people on board.

2008 aviation accident in Russia

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2007 - Prelude to the 2008 financial crisis: Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.

Worldwide economic crisis

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2003 - In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.

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2003 - Bissau-Guinean President Kumba Ialá is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Veríssimo Correia Seabra.

President of Guinea-Bissau from 2000 to 2003

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2002 - Total Linhas Aéreas Flight 5561 crashes near Paranapanema, Brazil, killing both pilots on board.

2002 aviation accident

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2001 - Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.

Episcopal Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

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2000 - Microsoft releases Windows Me.

American multinational technology company

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