Argentina raised interest rates to 60% to try and maintain the Peso.
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The second-largest mosque in Africa officially opened in Casablanca, Morocco.
HMS Pandora sank at The Great Barrier Reef after a voyage to hunt down the Bounty mutineers in 1790.
Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan's Slumdog Millionaire premiered at Colorado’s Telluride Film Festival.
The late author Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels were destroyed by a steamroller, as it was his last dying wish.
Fanny Kaplan, a Ukrainian Jewish Socialist Revolutionary, attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin.
