1901 - Filipino revolutionary leaders Apolinario Mabini, Gen. Artemio Ricarte, Gen. Maximo Hizon, Gen. Pio del Pilar and Pablo Ocampo are exiled to Guam by the imperialist American colonizers.
1547 - Ivan IV Vasilyevich, also referred to as "Ivan the Terrible," is crowned as the first Czar of Russia; his long reign saw the rise of the Asian country into a more powerful, larger multi-ethnic and multi-confessional nation.
1979 - The United States-backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi flees Iran after months of Muslim fundamentalists-led, increasingly violent protests against his reign.
2001 - President Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Reopublic of Congo is shot by one of his bodyguards as part of an international plot to depose him; Kabila's death will be confirmed only two days later.
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