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1947 - Burma's effective prime minister and independence leader U Aung San was assassinated along with six other ministers.
1965 - Syngman Rhee, first president of South Korea, died.
1980 - The 22nd Summer Olympics opened in Moscow; more than 40 nations boycotted the games in protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
1992 - A car bomb killed Paolo Borsellino, a leading anti-Mafia judge, in Palermo, Sicily.
1996 - Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic resigned from public office to clear the way for post-war elections in Bosnia.
1996 - Former boxing champion Muhammad Ali lit the flame that opened the centenary Olympic Games in Atlanta.
2001 - The British politician and novelist Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to 4 years in jail for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
2002 - The British doctor Harold Shipman joined the ranks of the world's worst serial killers when an official inquiry found that he had murdered at least 215 of his patients.
2002 - Greek police formally arrested Alexandros Giotopoulos and named him as leader of the November 17 urban guerrilla group, blamed for the deaths of 23 people.
2004 - Philippine troops pulled out of Iraq after the government gave in to militants holding a Filipino hostage, straining its alliance with the United States.
2015 - Thousands of health enthusiasts set world record for largest Zumba class, held on the main streets of Manila.
