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★05 Oct 1903
Samuel Griffith became the first Chief Justice of Australia, while Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor became the first Puisne Justices of the High Court of Australia.

★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.

★17 Dec 1939
World War II: After sustaining heavy damage in the Battle of the River Plate two days prior, the commander of the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee decided to scuttle the ship rather than allow its capture by the British.

★06 Dec 1941
The British Secret Intelligence Service established a facility known as "Camp X" in Ontario, Canada, to train covert agents in clandestine operations.

★20 Jul 1944
Adolf Hitler survived an assassination attempt by German Resistance member Claus von Stauffenberg, who hid a bomb inside a briefcase during a conference at the Wolfsschanze military headquarters in East Prussia.

★02 Jul 1950
A mentally ill Buddhist monk set fire to the Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji, destroying what is now one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan.

★16 Jun 1963
Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.

★05 Oct 1963
The U.S. temporarily suspended the Commercial Import Program, its main economic support for South Vietnam, in response to oppression of Buddhism by President Ngo Dinh Diem.

★17 May 1974
The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force detonated a series of car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland, killing 33 people and injuring over 300 more.

★25 Sep 1977
About 4,200 people took part in the first modern Chicago Marathon.

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