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Fort Manoel, Malta

AD 81 – Domitian, the last Flavian emperor of Rome, was confirmed by the Senate to succeed his brother Titus.
Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, laid the first stone of Fort Manoel
(pictured) in Malta.

1901 – Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States at age 42, the youngest person ever to do so, eight days after William McKinley was fatally wounded in Buffalo, New York.
President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel was assassinated when a bomb exploded in the Beirut headquarters of the Phalange
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2008 – All 88 people aboard Aeroflot Flight 821 died when the aircraft crashed on approach to Perm International Airport in Perm Krai, Russia.

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