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Starting event: In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May (1987)

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  1. 936
    Politics

    Coronation of King Otto I of Germany

  2. 1568
    Birth

    Tommaso Campanella, Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet, is born

  3. 1644
    War

    Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War

  4. 1653
    Art

    Rembrandt paints Aristotle with a Bust of Homer

  5. 1771
    Art

    Joseph Wright of Derby paints The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus

  6. 1831
    Politics

    Regulamentul Organic, a quasi-constitutional organic law, is adopted in Wallachia, one of the two Danubian Principalities that were to become the basis of Romania

  7. 1864
    Birth

    Richard Strauss, German composer and orchestra director, is born

  8. 1869
    War

    Te Kooti's War: After surviving a five-day siege in the pā at Ngātapa, Māori leader Te Kooti escaped from New Zealand's Armed Constabulary

  9. 1892
    Music

    Alfredo Catalani's opera La Wally premieres

  10. 1927
    Books

    Agatha Christie publishes The Big Four

  11. 1940
    Music

    Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight

  12. 1941
    Religion

    The Holocaust: Ethnic Poles murdered at least 300 Jewish residents of Jedwabne in German-occupied Poland

  13. 1945
    Sport

    FK Crvena zvezda is founded

  14. 1970
    History

    Soviet Union enters ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization

  15. 1974
    Landmarks

    Estádio Nacional de Brasília officially opens

  16. 1987
    TransportStarting event

    In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May

  17. 1988
    Disaster

    The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, Kerala in India killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more

  18. 1989
    Film

    Dead Poets Society, directed by Peter Weir, is released

  19. 2007
    Film

    Shooter, directed by Antoine Fuqua, is released

  20. 2012
    Internet

    The website Figma launches

  21. 2018
    History

    A false emergency alert warning of an impending missile strike in Hawaii causes widespread panic in the state