1914 - Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
1916 - Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the US for $25 million
1925 - US marines leave Nicaragua after 13-year occupation
1930 - Child labor laws estralished in Belgium
1944 - British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy
1946 - an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
1956 - Indonesia says it will not pay debts to the Netherlands
1962 - Nelson Mandela captured by South African police
1983 - Bettino Craxi sworn in as premier of Italy
1983 - Revolution in Burkina Faso
1990 - European community proposes a boycott of Iraq
2012 - 45 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Abyan, Yemen
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