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★24 Oct 1889
Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of the Colony of New South Wales, gave a speech where he called for the federation of the six Australian colonies.

★26 May 1894
Germany's Emmanuel Lasker defeated Wilhelm Steinitz to become world chess champion, beginning a record 27-year reign.

★26 Jun 1907
Organised by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, among others, Bolshevik revolutionaries in Tiflis, Georgia, robbed a bank stagecoach, getting away with 341,000 rubles.

★11 Sep 1914
During the First World War, the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force invaded German New Guinea, winning the Battle of Bita Paka.

★08 Jan 1918
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points for a moral cause and for post-World War I peace in Europe.

★26 Jul 1918
Emmy Noether introduced what became known as Noether's theorem, from which conservation laws are deduced for symmetries of angular momentum, linear momentum, and energy, at Göttingen, Germany.

★22 Oct 1924
The educational non-profit organization Toastmasters International was founded at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California.

★10 Jul 1925
Indian mystic and spiritual master Meher Baba began his silence until his death in 1969, only communicating by means of an alphabet board or by unique hand gestures.

★23 Aug 1927
After a controversial trial, and despite worldwide protests, Italian-born American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti were executed via electrocution in Massachusetts for murder.

★24 Oct 1931
The George Washington Bridge, today the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge, connecting New York City to Fort Lee, New Jersey, was dedicated.

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