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1917 - Alexander Kerensky became prime minister of Russia, taking over from Prince Lvov.
1934 - John Dillinger, famed U.S. bank robber, was shot dead by FBI agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre after 13 months on the run.
1990 - Mongolians vote in country's first free elections.
1997 - An Italian court handed former Nazi SS Captain Erich Priebke a five-year prison sentence for his role in Italy's worst World War Two atrocity but freed his co-defendant, former Major Karl Hass.
1998 - American 4 x 400m team sprinters set world record at Goodwill Games.
1999 - China banned in Falun Gong, a spiritual movement, as a "cult" that threatened the government.
2004 - French crooner Sacha Distel, whose seductive good looks won him millions of female fans around the world, died aged 71.
2006 - Ships and aircraft toiled through the night whisking shell-shocked civilians from the fighting in Lebanon to safety in Cyprus in a mass evacuation exceeding 25,000 people.
2010 - Actors Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren awarded world record for most successful sports franchise in film history with movie "Rocky”.
2011 - Bombing, gun massacre in Norway.
