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[edit]Bombing of Tirpitz in September 1944
- 1944 – Second World War: In Operation Catechism, the Royal Air Force sank the German battleship Tirpitz (video featured) near Tromsø, Norway, killing about 1,000 sailors on board.
- 1956 – Suez Crisis: During an invasion of Rafah, Israeli soldiers shot and killed an estimated 111 Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants.
- 1970 – The Oregon Highway Division unsuccessfully attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon, with dynamite.
- 1991 – Indonesian forces opened fire on student demonstrators protesting the occupation of East Timor in the capital Dili, killing at least 250 people.
- 2014 – The European Space Agency's lander Philae touched down on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a comet.
- Johan Rantzau (b. 1492)
- Rachel Barrett (b. 1874)
- Jo Stafford (b. 1917)
- Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley (b. 1926)
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Justin Welby
- Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby (pictured) resigns as a result of the John Smyth abuse scandal in the Church of England.
- A suicide bombing by the Balochistan Liberation Army at the Quetta railway station, Pakistan, kills 32 people.
- The German ruling coalition collapses over disagreements on economic policies.
- Donald Trump wins the United States presidential election.
- Maia Sandu is re-elected President of Moldova.