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1805 Battle of Trafalgar: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson shot and killed during battle.
1854 Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War
1944 World War II: US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall
1948 UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons
1950 Chinese forces occupy Tibet
1993 Failed military coup in Burundi, led by ex-President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, includes assassination President Ndadaye; 525,000 Hutus flee
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