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2008
A major fire erupted in the Channel Tunnel, which runs under the English Channel and connects England with France, and the Chunnel (as it was sometimes called) did not resume full service until early the following year.
2002
American gridrion football player Johnny Unitas, considered one of the NFL’s all-time greatest quarterbacks, died in Maryland.
1985
American professional baseball player Pete Rose registered his 4,192nd career hit, breaking the record set by Ty Cobb.
1973
General Augusto Pinochet led a coup d’état, overthrowing the government of President Salvador Allende of Chile.
1967
The Carol Burnett Show debuted on CBS, and the variety and sketch comedy program, which featured Carol Burnett and her comedy troupe, became a Saturday-night staple.
1944
Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in Canada at the second Quebec Conference.
1855
The 11-month Siege of Sevastopol ended after British and French troops finally captured the main naval base of the Russian Black Sea fleet during the Crimean War.
1814
U.S. naval forces under Thomas Macdonough defeated a larger British force at the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812.
1777
British forces led by General William Howe defeated the Americans at the Battle of the Brandywine during the American Revolution.
1709
The duke of Marlborough led a British army of 100,000 men against a French army of 90,000 at the Battle of Malplaquet in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1697
Austrian forces won a decisive victory over an Ottoman army at the Battle of Zenta.
