Rodney King | Strike | Airplane Crash | The Mallard | Ottoman Empire (English)
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Date: 2022-03-03

* 1991 Footage of Los Angeles police officers severely beating Rodney King causes a global outcry
The acquittal of the police officers involved sparked the Los Angeles riots in 1992.

* 1985 The U.K. miners' strike ends
The year-long dispute was the country's longest-running industrial dispute and a defining issue of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government.

* 1974 All 345 people on board a Turkish Airlines jet die as it plunges to the ground near Paris, France
The crash of the DC-10 aircraft has the 4th highest death toll of any aviation accident in history.

* 1938 The world's fastest steam locomotive is built
The Mallard could reach a speed of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).

* 1924 The last remnant of the Ottoman empire in Turkey is abolished
The end of the Islamic caliphate marked the demise of the 600-year old empire and gave way to the formation of a reformed Turkey under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

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