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1539 - Mihrimah Sultan, daughter of Suleiman the Magnificent, married the Dome Vizier Rüstem Pasha. The wedding lasted until November 26, 1539.
1889 - Washington joined the USA as the 42nd state.
1914 - The Ottoman Empire declared war on the Allied Powers in World War I.
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1918 - World War I ended with the signing of an armistice between the German Empire and the Allied Powers.
1918 - Poland's Independence Day; Polish lands were reunited after 123 years.
1923 - Adolf Hitler was arrested in Munich after the failed "Beer Hall Putsch."
1926 - U.S. Route 66, the famous highway that spans the country and has even been the subject of songs, was opened in the USA.
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1938 - The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) unanimously elected İsmet İnönü as President.
1940 - Aircraft from the British Royal Navy attacked the Italian Navy at the port of Taranto.
1947 - Turkey became a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
1951 - Juan Peron was re-elected President of Argentina.
1959 - Akis Magazine writers Kurtul Altuğ and Doğan Avcıoğlu were sentenced to 3 months and 15 days in prison each for insulting the Shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, through their publication.
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1965 - Rhodesia, the last United Kingdom colony in Africa, declared its independence.
1966 - NASA launched the Gemini 12 spacecraft.
1970 - The European Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitation to Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes entered into force. Turkey did not ratify this convention.
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1973 - Israel and Egypt signed a ceasefire.
1975 - The People's Republic of Angola was established. Angola had been a colony of Portugal.
1976 - An agreement regulating the exchange of electricity between Turkey and the Soviet Union for a period of 10 years was signed.
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1987 - Van Gogh's "Irises" painting was sold in New York for 53.9 million dollars.
1996 - The National Lottery Administration General Directorate launched the numerical lottery game "Sayısal Loto."
2001 - The Communist Party of Turkey was founded by Yalçın Küçük and Metin Çulhaoğlu.
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