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Ararded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of cells that constitute a
positioning system in the brain.
The first human born to a recipient of a donated uterus is delivered in Sweden.
Ongoing !bola outbrea" # $ong %ong protests # &slamic State of &ra' and the (evant
)ecent deaths *ean+,laude -uvalier
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October .. National ,oming Out -ay /international0
Pope *ohn 11&&&
..23 # The Treaty of Shao4ing5 ending the *urchen campaigns against the Song -ynasty5 was
formally ratified when a *in envoy visited the Southern Song court.
.672 # A storm tide on the coast of North 8risia caused a massive flood that "illed at least 95:::
people and split the island of Strand into three smaller islands.
.;<; # 8rench )evolutionary =ars The )oyal Navy captured eleven -utch Navy ships without any
losses in the >attle of ,amperdown.
.<2. # Armed insurgents from the People?s (iberation Army of Macedonia attac"ed A4is+occupied
zones in the city of Prilep5 beginning the National (iberation =ar of Macedonia.
.<63 # Pope *ohn 11&&& /pictured0 convened the Second @atican ,ouncil5 the first )oman ,atholic
ecumenical council in <3 years.
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Today?s featured picture
&nupiat
A family portrait of an &nupiat mother5 father5 and son5 photographed in Noata"5 Alas"a5 by !dward
S. ,urtis circa .<3<. The &nupiat are an Alas"a Native people whose traditional territory spans from
the Norton Sound on the >ering Sea to the ,anadian border. At the time this picture was ta"en5 most
were living in coastal areas5 having migrated there during a period of starvation and an influenza
epidemic.
Photograph !dward S. ,urtisB restoration %eraunoscopia
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