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★03 Sep 1901
The National Flag of Australia, a Blue Ensign defaced with the Commonwealth Star and the Southern Cross, flew for the first time atop the Royal Exhibition Building in Melbourne.

★28 Oct 1925
The funerary mask of Tutankhamun, possibly made for Queen Nefertiti, was uncovered for the first time in 3,250 years.

★12 Mar 1934
Supported by the Estonian Army, Konstantin Päts staged a coup d'état, beginning the Era of Silence.

★18 May 1936
In a crime that shocked Japan, Sada Abe strangled her lover Kichizo Ishida, cut off his genitals, and carried them around with her for several days until her arrest.

★05 Dec 1945
Flight 19, a squadron of five U.S. naval TBF Avenger torpedo bombers, disappeared in the area now known as the Bermuda Triangle.

★19 Feb 1954
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency planted a cache of Soviet-made weapons on a beach in Nicaragua, as part of an effort to portray Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz as a Soviet puppet.

★05 Jun 1956
American singer Elvis Presley performed "Hound Dog" on The Milton Berle Show, an appearance that generated many letters of protest.

★22 May 1958
Ethnic rioting broke out in Ceylon, targeted mostly at the minority Sri Lankan Tamils, resulting in up to 300 deaths over the next five days.

★10 Nov 1958
Merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond, the "most famous diamond in the world", to the Smithsonian Institution.

★21 Oct 1969
Siad Barre led Supreme Revolutionary Council forces in a military coup and established the Somali Democratic Republic.

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