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- 13-March-1997 : India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
- 24-February-1989 : Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US $3$3million bounty on the head of ''The Satanic Verses'' author Salman Rushdie.
- 14-February-1989 : Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini encourages Muslims to kill ''The Satanic Verses'' author Salman Rushdie.
- 23-June-1978 : Josip Broz Tito is named Yugoslav president for life.
- 06-December-1953 : With the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor Arturo Toscanini performs what he claims is his favorite Beethoven symphony, ''Eroica'', for the last time. The live performance is broadcast nationwide on radio, and later released on records and CD.
- 21-September-1676 : Pope Innocent XI succeeds Pope Clement X as the 240th pope.
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