On this day…

1000: The foundation of the Hungarian state, Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.

1882: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” debuts in Moscow

1889: Labour activists closed the entire Port of London in the London Dock Strike.

1961: East Germany begins erecting 5′ high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13

1968: The Warsaw Pact nations (except Romania and Albania), led by the Soviet Union, invaded Czechoslovakia to put an end to the Prague Spring. During the night 200,000 Warsaw Pact Soviet led troops invaded Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring

1991: Estonia formally declares its independence from the USSR

1993: Oslo Peace Accords signed, after secret negotiations in Norway, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month

1998: U.S. embassy bombings: US military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania

2017: American comedian and actor Jerry Lewis, who was known for his unrestrained comic style and his numerous movies with Dean Martin, died at age 91.

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