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★01 Nov 1950
Two Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to assassinate U.S. President Harry S. Truman.

★14 May 1951
Trains ran on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since its preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers.

★11 Sep 1965
Indo-Pakistani War: Indian infantry captured the town of Burki near Lahore, Pakistan.

★08 Sep 1966
The American science fiction show Star Trek premiered with "The Man Trap", launching a media franchise that has since created a cult phenomenon and has influenced the design of many current technologies.

★06 Jun 1971
Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collided with a U.S. Marine Corps F-4B Phantom II near Duarte, California, killing 50 people, the radar intercept officer of the F-4B being the sole survivor.

★26 Oct 1977
Somalian hospital cook Ali Maow Maalin began displaying symptoms in the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.

★21 Oct 1978
After reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft, Frederick Valentich disappeared in unexplained circumstances while piloting a Cessna 182L light aircraft over the Bass Strait to King Island, Australia.

★26 Apr 1989
A tornado struck the Manikganj District of Bangladesh, killing an estimated 1,300 people, making it the deadliest tornado in history.

★25 Aug 1989
The Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings.

★10 Oct 1992
After 20 years of construction, Vidyasagar Setu, the longest cable-stayed bridge in India, was opened, joining Kolkata and Howrah.

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