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A British Army helicopter was destroyed in a friendly fire incident during the Falklands War, killing its four occupants. In the early hours of 6 June 1982, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff was looking for aircraft supplying the Argentine forces on the Falkland Islands. An Army Air Corps Gazelle helicopter (example pictured) was making a routine delivery to British troops on East Falkland. Cardiff's crew assumed it was hostile, given its speed and course, and fired two missiles, destroying it. When the wreckage was found, the loss was attributed to enemy fire. Although Cardiff was suspected, scientific tests on the wreckage were inconclusive. No formal inquiry was held until four years later. Defending their claim that the helicopter had been lost in action, the UK Ministry of Defence stated that they had not wanted to upset relatives while they were still trying to ascertain how the Gazelle had been shot down. The board of inquiry did not blame any individuals but identified factors including a lack of communication between the army and the navy and the army's decision to turn off helicopters' identification friend or foe transmitters. (Full article...)

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Israeli politician and general Ariel Sharon (pictured) dies after being in a permanent vegetative state for eight years.
Amid civil conflict, Michel Djotodia resigns as President of the Central African Republic.
Archaeologists identify the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Sobekhotep I.
The United States Senate confirms Janet Yellen as the Federal Reserve System's first female chairman.
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Amid violence and a boycott by opposition parties, the Bangladesh Awami League wins the general election.

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January 14: New Year (Julian calendar); National Forest Conservation Day in Thailand; Ratification Day in the United States (1784)

1724 – Philip V, the first Bourbon ruler of Spain, abdicated the throne to his eldest son Louis.
1814 – Sweden and Denmark–Norway signed the Treaty of Kiel, whereby Frederick VI of Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden in return for the Swedish holdings in Pomerania.
1907 – A 6.5 M_w earthquake struck Kingston, Jamaica, resulting in at least 800 deaths, which was at the time considered one of the world's deadliest earthquakes recorded in history.
1954 – Nash-Kelvinator and Hudson Motor Car Company merged to become American Motors in an effort to create one multibrand company capable of challenging the "Big Three" as an equal.
1978 – Austrian logician Kurt Gödel (pictured), who suffered from an obsessive fear of being poisoned, died of starvation after his wife was hospitalized and unable to cook for him.

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The Humble Oil Building in Houston, Texas, was completed by the Humble Oil and Refining Company in 1921. A tower, visible to the right, was added fifteen years later. Humble Oil used this building as their headquarters until 1963. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, the building now houses a Courtyard by Marriott hotel, as well as apartments and retail space.

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