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2019

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang, the first Chinese president to visit North Korea in 14 years

2003

The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.

1994

Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson & Ronald Goldman.

1985

Premier René Lévesque announces he will resign as leader of the Parti Quebecois

1980

Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous points decision.

1963

The United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to set up a hot line communication link between the two countries.

1944

Nazis begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz.

1840

Samuel Morse patents his telegraph.

1837

Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.

1214

The University of Oxford, England, receives its charter.

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