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On this day in 1065 the Westminster Abbey in London was consecrated

On this day in 1945, the International Monetary Fund was founded

On this day in 2004 the Indian Ocean Tsunami struck the world

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On this day in 1814 the Ghent Treaty was signed between Great Britain and the United States

On this day in 1995 Aleksander Kwaśniewski was inaugurated as Polish president

On this day in 1894 French Army Officer Alfred Dreyfus was sentenced to life imprisonment, giving rise to the Dreyfus Affair

On this day in 1898 Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium

On this day in 1999 Macau was made an administrative region of China

On this day in 1998, the US House of Representatives impeached President Bill Clinton

On this day in 1865, slavery in the United States was officially abolished, as the Thirteenth Amendment entered into force

On this day in 1903, the famous Wright brothers made their first successful sustained airplane flight

On this day in 1773 the incident known as the Boston Tea Party, in which American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians threw 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company from ships into Boston Harbor.

On this day in 2011, the US officially declared the end of their mission in Iraq, signifying the end of the Iraq war

On this day in 1911 Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person ever to reach the South Pole