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1973: U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns amid tax evasion allegations, becoming the only U.S. Vice President to resign due to scandal. 1975: Papua New Guinea gains independence from the Commonwealth of Australia and joins the United Nations and the Commonwealth of Nations. 1976: Then-Governor of Taiwan Province, Hsieh Tung-min, is injured by a bomb thrown by Taiwanese independence activist Wang Hsing-nan, becoming the only provincial governor in the Republic of China's history to be targeted in an assassination attempt while in office. 1992: After 20 years of construction, India's longest cable-stayed bridge, the Vidyasagar Setu, opens, connecting Kolkata and Howrah. 2004: 8-year-old Huang Na is kidnapped and murdered. Her body is found after a three-week multinational search by Singapore and Malaysia. 2010: The Netherlands Antilles is formally dissolved, with Curaçao and Sint Maarten becoming constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. 2017: Catalan President Carles Puigdemont signs the 'Declaration of Independence of Catalonia' but immediately announces a suspension of the independence process.