The last American military evacuation plane left Kabul, ending the brutal 20-year-long War in Afghanistan.
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Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan's Slumdog Millionaire premiered at Colorado’s Telluride Film Festival.
Argentina raised interest rates to 60% to try and maintain the Peso.
HMS Pandora sank at The Great Barrier Reef after a voyage to hunt down the Bounty mutineers in 1790.
Fanny Kaplan, a Ukrainian Jewish Socialist Revolutionary, attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin.
The second-largest mosque in Africa officially opened in Casablanca, Morocco.
