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** WWI: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence capture Aqaba from the Turks.
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** Nawaf al-Hazmi, 25, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
** Salem al-Hazmi, 20, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
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** Khalid al-Mihdhar, 26, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
** Majed Moqed, 24, Saudi Arabian, one of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77.
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** Chinese communist troops fail to take Quemoy in the Battle of Kuningtou ; their advance towards Taiwan is halted.
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** Bayeux is liberated by British troops.
** Soviet troops liberate Minsk.
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** The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined American and Filipino ground troops.
** American and Filipino troops enter Intramuros, Manila.
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