On this day:
1991: Azerbaijan Declares its Independence from the Soviet Union
1999: People in East Timor Vote in a Referendum in favour of independence from Indonesia
Born on this day:
1930: Warren Buffett, American businessman, philanthropist
Gone on this day:
2013: Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
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