1869: Nature, one of the oldest and most reputable general purpose scientific journals, was first published.
1918: The German Revolution began when forty thousand sailors took over the port of Kiel.
1956: Soviet troops invaded Hungary to crush the Hungarian Uprising, killing thousands. Nearly a quarter million fled the country as refugees.
1979: Iranian radicals seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held the occupants hostage for 444 days.
1995: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (pictured) was mortally wounded by Yigal Amir while at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.

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