The last American military evacuation plane left Kabul, ending the brutal 20-year-long War in Afghanistan.
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Rapper Kanye West publicly announced his plans to run for president at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Fanny Kaplan, a Ukrainian Jewish Socialist Revolutionary, attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin.
The late author Terry Pratchett's unfinished novels were destroyed by a steamroller, as it was his last dying wish.
Captain William Penn set sail from Deal, England, on his famous voyage to the New World on his ship named 'Welcome.'
HMS Pandora sank at The Great Barrier Reef after a voyage to hunt down the Bounty mutineers in 1790.
