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1994
Israel and Jordan opens the first road to link the two once-hostile countries.
1988
U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar declares a cease-fire between Iran and Iraq.
1974
U.S. President Nixon announces his resignation following the Watergate scandal.
1967
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is established in Bangkok, Thailand.
1963
Seven million dollars is stolen in Great Britain in what came to be known as the Great Train Robbery.
1920
The first issue of The Philippine Herald, the first daily newspaper in English and the first owned by Filipinos, comes out.
1899
A.T. Marshall gets a patent for the refrigerator.
1876
Thomas A. Edison patents the mimeograph.
1815
Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for the island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic where he was to spend the rest of his life in exile.
1811
The first issue of Del Superior Govierno, the first newspaper in the Philippines, comes out.

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