Malta gained independence from the United Kingdom.
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Benedetto Odescalchi was elected as Pope Innocent XI.
In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeated Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
Widespread forest fires in Indonesia caused the skies to turn red.
The survival movie 'Into the Wild,' starring Emile Hirsch, premiered at the Rome Film Festival.
Sir Cecil Herbert Edward Chubb became the last private owner of Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England.