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1910 - Portugal was declared a republic after a successful revolt against King Manuel II.
1983 - Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1995 - U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke clinched a ceasefire agreement among warring factions in Bosnia.
2000 - Demonstrators stormed the Yugoslav parliament building in Belgrade and opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica told a huge rally that President Slobodan Milosevic had been defeated.
2001 - Emilie Schindler, who with her husband Oskar helped hundreds of Jews escape Nazi death camps in World War Two, died. She was 94.
2001 - San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds sets new baseball record when he hits 71st home run in a single season.
2003 - Akhmad Kadyrov, a former Muslim cleric backed by the Kremlin, won Chechnya's presidential election by a landslide. He was assassinated in May, 2004.
2005 - A huge mudslide triggered by Hurricane Stan engulfed dozens of homes in Guatemala's Maya Indian highlands, killing some 2,000 people.
2007 - American athlete Marion Jones announces retirement after pleading guilty to lying to federal investigators about her use of steroids.
2008 - World's largest Lego tower is built in Vienna.
2011 - Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs dies.
