Montana became the 41st state to join the United States of America.
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Category five Typhoon Haiyan ripped through the Philippines and claimed the lives of more than 6,000 people with gusts up to 145 miles per hour.
Two hundred bodies were found in a mass grave site between Ethiopia and Somalia.
Asteroid 2005 YU55 came dangerously close to hitting the Earth.
The Albanian Communist Party was formed, with Enver Hoxha as its leader.
German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered x-rays.
