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1944 Allied forces landed in southern France during World War II.
1945 The Allies proclaimed V-J Day, one day after Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally.
1948 The Republic of Korea (South Korea) was proclaimed.
1998 A car bomb in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killed 29 people and injured 370. It was the single deadliest act of violence in 30 years of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.
2001 Astronomers announced the discovery of the first solar system outside our own - two planets orbiting a star in the Big Dipper.
2005 Iraqi leaders failed to meet a key deadline for finishing a new constitution.
2006 Israel began withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon.
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