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In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.

Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bos

A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.

The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.

The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty.

The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. Twenty-four people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.

Israel launches widespread aerial bombardments and attacks on the Gaza Strip, killing at least 591 people, including children.

First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongol forces defeated the Polish armies of Sandomierz and Kraków at the Battle of Chmielnik.

Charles I of Anjou acquired a claim on the Kingdom of Jerusalem in exchange for a significant sum of money.

Susenyos I was formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.

Andreas Joseph Hofmann proclaimed the Republic of Mainz, becoming the first republican state in Germany.

Canadian governor general Lord Stanley of Preston pledged to donate an award to Canada's top-ranked amateur ice hockey club, now known as the Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in Nort

The construction of the House with Chimaeras (pictured) commenced in Kyiv.

Romanian inventor Traian Vuia became the first person to fly a heavier-than-air monoplane (pictured) with an unassisted takeoff.

First World War: In one of the largest naval battles of the Gallipoli campaign, Ottoman forces sank three Allied battleships and severely damaged three others.

Russian Civil War: Bolshevik forces suppressed a rebellion of sailors and civilians in Kronstadt.

The deadliest tornado in U.S. history spawned in Missouri and traveled more than 219 miles (352 km) across Illinois and Indiana, leaving one of the longest continuous tornado tracks ever recorded.

Tibetan uprising: After the 14th Dalai Lama sought refuge at Sera Monastery in Lhasa, Tibet, Chinese forces bombarded the monastery, inflicting severe destruction and killing hundreds of Buddhist monk

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov ventured outside the Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 2, becoming the first person to walk in space.