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2013 Event - Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard formally apologizes to people affected by forced adoptions during the 1950s through 1970s

2013 Event - Thousands of people on Australia's east coast are threatened by over 130 wildfires burning, and are forced to leave their homes

2012 Event - A dense fog near Beaumont, Texas, causes a a 100-vehicle pileup , leaving 120 people injured and 2 killed; the incident forced the Interstate 10 in Southeast Texas to close in both directions

2010 Event - Northern Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army is accused of abduction and forced recruitment of 697 people in the past year and a half

1991 Event - Wrestler Rip Oliver forced to retire after being injured by Crush

1990 Event - George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of New York Yankees

1984 Event - Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members

1975 Birthday - Aron Ralston, born in America, mountain climber, motivational speaker, forced to amputate his right arm to free and save himself, when trapped by a boulder in Utah

1971 Event - Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army

1962 Event - U.S. steel industry forced to give up price increases

1950 Event - South Korea President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions

1947 Event - King Michael of Romania, forced by communists abdicates his throne

1945 Event - LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close

1944 Event - 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor

1943 Event - Dutch strike against forced labor in Nazi Germany's war industry

1942 Event - Jews forced to wear a Jewish Star in Netherlands and Vichy-France

1942 Event - Belgium Jews are forced to wear stars

1939 Event - Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service

1939 Event - Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany

1938 Event - Kristallnacht; Jews forced to wear Star of David

1934 Birthday - Josef Sommer, born in Germany, actor, Witness, Target, Iceman, Forced March

1931 Event - Chilean president Carlos Ibanez forced out

1929 Event - Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign

1918 Event - Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line

1879 Event - Afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign

1835 Event - After gold discovery in Ga, Cherokees forced to move across Miss R

1805 Event - Tripoli forced to conclude peace with U.S. after war over tribute

1793 Event - France ends forced worship of God

1743 Death - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian/France composer (Forced Marriage), dies at 77

1633 Event - Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (but on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong)

1633 Event - Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views

1567 Event - Mary Queen of Scots is forced to abdicate and 1-year-old James VI becomes King of Scotland

1526 Event - Francis I forced to give up claims in Burgundy, Italy and Flanders

1478 Death - Duke of Clarence, forced drowning in a wine barrel

1328 Event - William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII

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