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This day in history: May 24

1. 1970

   On the Kola Peninsula in Russia, drilling began on the Kola Superdeep Borehole, which eventually reached a depth of 12,262 metres (40,230 ft), making it the deepest borehole ever drilled and the lowest artificial point on Earth.

2. 1976

   In a wine competition in Paris, French judges shocked the wine industry by rating California wines higher than French ones.

3. 1986

   A stationary front began over the central Caribbean Sea, leading to severe floods that over two weeks killed dozens of people in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.

4. 1988

   Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act of 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, was enacted.

5. 1991

   The Israel Defense Forces began Operation Solomon, a covert operation to bring thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

6. 2006

   An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film that has been credited for raising international public awareness of climate change and re-energizing the environmental movement, was released.

7. 2014

   A gunman involved in Islamic extremism opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, killing four people.

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