In 1271, Gregory X was elected Pope of Rome. In 1364, Pope Urban V issued a decree establishing the Krakow Academy. In 1804, the German astronomer Carl Ludwig Harding discovered the third asteroid in the solar system —Juno. In 1887, the fifteenth government of Bulgaria was formed, headed by Stefan Stambolov. In 1897, the first subway in North America opened in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1914, Saint Petersburg changed its name to Petrograd. In 1916, during World War I, Bulgaria declared war on Romania. In 1920, France created Lebanon, which was under a French protectorate until 1946. In 1923, the Great Kanto Earthquake devastated the Tokyo area of Japan, killing over 140,000 and leaving 2.5 million homeless. In 1928, Albania was declared a kingdom and Zog I became the first king. In 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II. In 1969, after a coup d'état in Libya, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi took power, which he later handed over to People's Committees. In 1972 in Reykjavik, Iceland, American Bobby Fischer defeated Russian Boris Spassky to become the world chess champion. In 1979, the American spacecraft “Pioneer 11” becomes the first probe to visit Saturn, passing the planet at a distance of 21,000 km. In 1985, a joint American-French expedition located the remains of the Titanic. In 1991, Uzbekistan declared its independence from the USSR. In 1997, 11 miners died in the Bobov Dol mine as a result of an explosion.
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