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|Biman Bangladesh Airlines is the National Flag Carrier of Bangladesh, | |CNSA Astronaut Zhai Zhigang successfully performs a |

|with its main hub at Zia International Airport in Dhaka. It also | |spacewalk during the Chinese space mission Shenzhou 7. |

|operates flights from Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong | |In the largest bank failure in U.S. history, Washington |

|and earns significant revenue from the connecting service to Osmani | |Mutual (headquarters pictured) is placed into |

|International Airport in Sylhet. Currently it provides passenger and | |receivership by the Office of Thrift Supervision. As |

|cargo service in different international routes in Asia and Europe | |receiver, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation sells|

|along with major domestic routes. It has Air Service Agreements with | |the bank's accounts and operations to JPMorgan Chase. |

|42 countries; but maintains flights to only 18 at present. Until July | |Kgalema Motlanthe is sworn in as the President of South |

|2007 the airline was wholly owned and managed by the Government of | |Africa, succeeding Thabo Mbeki. |

|Bangladesh; on 23 July 2007, it was transformed into Bangladesh's | |Eighteen people are killed after Typhoon Hagupit hits the|

|largest Public Limited Company by the Caretaker government of | |Philippines and China. |

|Bangladesh. Created in February 1972 using vintage aircraft, Biman | |The Diet of Japan elects Taro Aso of the Liberal |

|enjoyed an internal monopoly in Bangladesh aviation industry until | |Democratic Party as the new Prime Minister of Japan. |

|1996. In the decades following its founding, the airline expanded both| |Eleven students die in a school shooting in Kauhajoki, |

|its fleet and its horizon (at its peak Biman operated flights to 29 | |Finland. |

|international destinations with New York – John F. Kennedy | |Edward Natapei is elected the new Prime Minister of |

|International Airport (New York City) in the west and Tokyo – Narita | |Vanuatu following the 2008 general elections. |

|in the east), but suffered heavily owing to mass corruption and | |In golf, Team USA defeats Team Europe to win the 37th |

|frequent mishaps. After becoming a public limited company, Biman has | |Ryder Cup Matches. |

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|Wadi es-Sebua, Amada, and Derr were all dismantled in the 1960s and | |decisive defeat by Julius Caesar at the Battle of |

|rebuilt elsewhere, to avoid the rising waters of Lake Nasser created | |Pharsalus. |

|by the Aswan Dam? | |1066 – William the Conqueror and his fleet of around 600 |

|... that Bill Laxton was the winning pitcher in the first game ever | |ships landed at Pevensey, Sussex, beginning the Norman |

|won by the Seattle Mariners, a come-from-behind, 7–6 win over the | |conquest of England. |

|California Angels? | |1708 – Great Northern War: Russia defeated Sweden at the |

|... that six hours after it had been forecast to become a tropical | |Battle of Lesnaya on the Russian–Polish border in |

|storm, Hurricane Joyce unexpectedly dissipated? | |present-day Belarus. |

|... that Tang Dynasty general Zhu Ci, angry that he was removed from | |1928 – Scottish biologist and pharmacologist Alexander |

|command due to his brother Zhu Tao's rebellion, later tried to become | |Fleming (pictured) noticed a bacteria-killing mold |

|emperor of his own state of Qin? | |growing in his laboratory, discovering what became known |

|... that the members of the Canadian alternative dance band Ubiquitous| |as Penicillin. |

|Synergy Seeker met while stocking the beer fridge at a golf course? | |1978 – Pope John Paul I died only 33 days after his papal|

|... that Theresa Elmendorf was the first woman president of the | |election due to an apparent myocardial infarction, an |

|American Library Association? | |event that has spawned a variety of murder conspiracy |

|... that Baghdad was under siege for more than a year during a civil | |theories. |

|war in the 9th century between Al-Amin and his brother Al-Ma'mun for | |More events: September 27 – September 28 – September 29 |

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