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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.
On this day...
Æthelred II of England
- 1002 – King Æthelred II (pictured) ordered the massacre of all Danes in England.
- 1914 – Zaian War: Zaian Berber tribesmen routed French forces at the Battle of El Herri in Morocco.
- 1963 – A man wielding a dagger was subdued as he was about to attack Sanzō Nosaka, the chairman of the Japanese Communist Party.
- 1966 – Arab–Israeli conflict: In response to a Fatah landmine incident, the Israeli military conducted a large cross-border assault on the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu.
- 1974 – Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed six members of his family in Amityville, New York, events that later inspired the book The Amityville Horror and a subsequent media franchise.
- Theophilus Holmes (b. 1804)
- Anne Dallas Dudley (b. 1876)
- Arthur Nebe (b. 1894)
- Amelia Bence (b. 1914)
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