The 2018 partial shutdown of the US federal government began.
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Doctors Without Borders was founded in Paris by French doctors and journalists.
Two robbers who wore police uniforms robbed an armored truck of $3 million in New Jersey.
A samurai called Itō Hirobumi became Japan's first Prime Minister.
Pope Innocent I was elected.
Richard Reid, infamously known as the 'shoe bomber,' attempted to blow up an airplane with explosives in his shoes.
