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1895 - The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.

# 1902 - In the United States, a five month strike by United Mine Workers ends.

1921 - President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting President against lynching in the deep south.

1941 - 7000 Serbs were shot in Kragujevac, Serbia by Nazi Germans.

1944 - The first kamikaze attack: HMAS Australia was hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.

1945 - Women's suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.

1945 - Argentine military officer and politician Juan Perón married actress Evita.

1959 - In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

1965 - Comet Ikeya-Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun.