A six-day siege began in London when an IRA unit took a couple hostage in their flat while fleeing the police.
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Starbucks opened its largest cafe in the world in Shanghai, at 29,000 square-feet, which is 1/2 the size of a football field.
Scientists discovered the most distant supermassive black hole.
Claudius Amyand performed the first recorded appendectomy at St George's Hospital in London.
Taylor Swift was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
Hasbro was founded as Hassenfeld Brothers in Providence, Rhode Island.
