Today in 1661, 362 years ago: in Sweden, a bank issues the first paper money in Europe.

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Today in 1935, 88 years ago: in the Los Angeles neighborhood of the city of San José (Costa Rica), the football club Deportivo Saprissa was founded.

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Today in 1999, 24 years ago: John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, die when the aircraft he is piloting crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.

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Today in 1994, 29 years ago: the civil war ends in Rwanda.

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Today in 2018, 5 years ago: in Catalonia the Crida Nacional party is created, led by Carles Puigdemont.

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Today in 1948, 75 years ago: Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

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Today in 2004, 19 years ago: Millennium Park, considered Chicago's first and most ambitious early 21st-century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.

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Today in 1858, 165 years ago: The last apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France.

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Today in 1865, 158 years ago: in Tetela de Ocampo (Puebla) -during the Second French intervention in Mexico- the Austro-Hungarian legion, torches and destroys Tetela, its population, is forced to flee to the hills.

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Today in 1717, 306 years ago: in Campeche (in New Spain, now Mexico) the Villa de Valeros, now Ciudad del Carmen, was founded.

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Today in 1941, 82 years ago: Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as an MLB record.

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Today in 1950, 73 years ago: in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Uruguay is champion of the 1950 World Cup by beating Brazil in the final by 2 goals against 1, in a fact known as the Maracanazo.

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Today in 2009, 14 years ago: Teoh Beng Hock, an aide to a politician in Malaysia is found dead on the rooftop of a building adjacent to the offices of the Anti-Corruption Commission, sparking an inquest that gains nationwide attention.

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*1979 – Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.

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Today in 1946, 77 years ago: The State of North Borneo, now Sabah, Malaysia, is annexed by the United Kingdom.

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Today in 1998, 25 years ago: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23 million to five children who reported sexual abuse by Father Rudolph Kos.

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Today in 2000, 23 years ago: Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.

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Today in 2018, 5 years ago: in Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, candidate of the Juntos Haremos Historia coalition, is elected president of Mexico, with a historic result of 53% of the votes counted, being the first time in the History of Mexico in which a left-wing candidate is elected president of Mexico. He will remain in office until 2024.

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