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1940
- Birth of Nông Đức Mạnh, a Vietnamese politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 2001 to 2011.
1973
- Salvador Allende, the democratically-elected socialist President of Chile, is deposed in a Western-backed fascist military coup. Allende kills himself while Augusto Pinochet, the Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army, elevates himself to the presidential office.
2001
- The September 11 attacks, often erroneously referred to as the deadliest terrorist attack in history, are carried out by the Islamist group al-Qaeda in the United States, resulting in the deaths of 2,996 people and the destruction of the World Trade Center. The incident is later used by the U.S. government as the pretext for its so-called "War on terror".