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1939 – Formation of Indian Red Army for resisting British occupation.
1966 – President Abdul Salam Arif was killed in a helicopter crash in southern Iraq.
1975 – Ain el-Remmaneh accident, the spark of the Lebanese civil war.
1975 – African Peoples’ Solidarity Organization holds a meeting.
1985 – Israeli warplanes attack Mar Elias area in Lebanon, causing material losses.
1997 – Jordanian soldier Ahmad al-Dakamiseh, who shot fire against Israeli tourist group near Jordanian borders and killed 7 Israelis, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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1906 – Irish novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett.
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