1847 - Filipino revolutionary Severino Lapidario is born; he will become a prison warden and one of the “Thirteen Martyrs of Cavite" to be executed by Spanish colonial military authorities during the 1896 Revolution in the Philippines.
1961 - After seven years of staging guerrilla warfare, the people of Algeria win the French vote for their freedom following a referendum on the issue of the colony's independence.
1979 - Vietnamese and rebel allies force the retreat of Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge soldiers as the Cambodian capital falls; Vietnam is backed by the Soviets while Cambodia is supported by China.
1998 - Astronomers from the United States announce their research findings that the universe is expanding at an increasingly rapid pace, suggesting that the dominant energy is not visible but, rather, is found in empty space.
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