The British ship HMS Minotaur sunk, killing 480 people.
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Pope Innocent I was elected.
The 2018 partial shutdown of the US federal government began.
The Mummy film, directed by Karl Freund, was released in the US.
A powerful tsunami hit Indonesia.
Richard Reid, infamously known as the 'shoe bomber,' attempted to blow up an airplane with explosives in his shoes.
