1138 Earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, kills an estimated 230,000 1634 Burchardi flood - "the second Grote Mandrenke" kills about 15,000 in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany 1737 Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta, India 1797 Battle of Camperdown (Kamperduin): British navy defeats Dutch fleet 1945 Chinese civil war begins between Kuomintang government led by Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong's Communist Party 1962 Second Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII 1986 Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland | 
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