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Starting event: Haruki Murakami publishes Norwegian Wood (1987)

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  1. 1183
    Politics

    Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan

  2. 1581
    Politics

    Queen Elizabeth I knighted Francis Drake for completing a circumnavigation of the world

  3. 1632
    Education

    University of Tartu is founded

  4. 1676
    Birth

    (O.S.) Anthony Collins, English philosopher and author, is born

  5. 1741
    War

    King Marthanda Varma of Travancore defeats the Dutch East India Company at the Battle of Colachel, effectively bringing about the end of the Dutch colonial rule in India

  6. 1816
    Landmarks

    Glyptothek officially opens

  7. 1824
    Art

    Eugène Delacroix paints The Massacre at Chios

  8. 1844
    Science

    The chemical element ruthenium is discovered

  9. 1869
    Birth

    Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary and politician, is born

  10. 1919
    Disaster

    Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150

  11. 1947
    Landmarks

    Bernabéu officially opens

  12. 1961
    Books

    Joseph Heller publishes Catch-22

  13. 1970
    War

    Jordan makes a deal with the PFLP for the release of the remaining hostages from the Dawson's Field hijackings

  14. 1973
    Business

    The Penny brand is launched

  15. 1975
    Space

    Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations

  16. 1977
    Medicine

    Somali hospital cook Ali Maow Maalin began displaying symptoms of smallpox, becoming the last person known to be naturally infected by the disease

  17. 1987
    BooksStarting event

    Haruki Murakami publishes Norwegian Wood

  18. 1988
    Sport

    The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar

  19. 2002
    Music

    Lordi releases the album Get Heavy

  20. 2010
    Film

    127 Hours, directed by Danny Boyle, is released

  21. 2011
    Film

    The film Friends with Benefits is released