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1928 - The Grand Fascist Council became Italy's supreme legislative body, replacing the Chamber of Deputies.
1979 - Emperor Bokassa of the Central African Empire was deposed by former President David Dako who returned the country to the status of Republic.
1998 - Malaysian police arrested sacked finance minister Anwar Ibrahim after he led demonstrators through the capital Kuala Lumpur.
1999 - Body piercer Quille Desade sets new world record with 75 body piercings.
2000 - Dutch swimmer Inge de Bruijn sets new world record in 100m freestyle.
2001 - President George W. Bush announced the creation of a cabinet-level post to oversee "homeland defence" following the Sept. 11 attacks.
2004 - Former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono defeated Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri in an historic direct election.
2005 - Simon Wiesenthal, who waged an untiring campaign to track down Nazi war criminals and keep alive the memory of 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust, died aged 96.
2006 - Pham Xuan An, a Vietnamese spy who worked for Time magazine and other Western news media in Saigon during the U.S. war in Vietnam, died aged 79.
2008 - At least 40 people killed in devastating trucks bomb attack on the Marriott hotel in Islamabad.
2011 - Members of the U.S. military celebrate the expiration of the U.S. military policy "Don't Ask Don't Tell".
