404 – Aelia Eudoxia, empress consort of Byzantine emperor Arcadius, died from complications of childbirth. 1683 – German immigrants to the Pennsylvania Colony founded Germantown, the first permanent German settlement in North America. 1908 – Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, causing a crisis that permanently damaged their relations with Russia and the Kingdom of Serbia. 1973 – Egypt, under the leadership of President Anwar Sadat, launched Operation Badr in co-ordination with Syria, crossing the Suez Canal (pictured) and attacking the fortified Israeli Bar Lev Line, starting the Yom Kippur War. 1998 – University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was attacked and fatally wounded for being gay near Laramie, Wyoming, US, dying six days later.
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