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Alexander Lukashenko

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Angus Deaton is awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
At least 105 people are killed and more than 500 others injured in twin bombings at a peace rally in Ankara, Turkey.
The Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Svetlana Alexievich is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Louis Le Prince

1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French forces under Marshal Michel Ney defeated Austrian forces in Elchingen, present-day Germany.
1888 – French inventor Louis Le Prince (pictured) filmed Roundhay Garden Scene, the earliest surviving motion picture, in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
1912 – Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt was shot in an assassination attempt, but delivered a speech before receiving treatment from preeminent surgeon John Benjamin Murphy.
air-raid shelter
, killing at least 64 people.
1981 – Hosni Mubarak was elected President of Egypt, one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.

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"The superficial layer of the facial muscles and the neighboring muscles of the neck seen from the side and slightly from in front."
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