Today in 1769, 254 years ago: Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades, it evolves into the city of San Diego, California.
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Today in 1931, 92 years ago: in Ethiopia, Emperor Haile Selassie I signs the country's first constitution.
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Today in 1979, 44 years ago: Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
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Today in 1965, 58 years ago: the Mont Blanc tunnel is inaugurated, linking France and Italy.
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Today in 1769, 254 years ago: in the current United States, Father Junípero Serra founded the first mission in California (the Mission of San Diego de Alcalá). After a few decades, it is included in the city of San Diego (California).
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Today in 1965, 58 years ago: The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
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Today in 1965, 58 years ago: at the Nevada nuclear test site, at 5:04:24 local time, the United States detonates its Izzer atomic bomb (which is part of the Flintlock project), of less than 20 kilotons. It is the 424th bomb of the 1,129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
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Today in 1992, 31 years ago: in Lima (Peru), the terrorist gang Sendero Luminoso carried out an attack on Tarata Street in the district of Miraflores, leaving 30 civilians dead and 200 injured.
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Today in 1990, 33 years ago: The Luzon earthquake strikes the Philippines with an intensity of 7.7, affecting Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac.
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Today in 1931, 92 years ago: Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
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Today in 1951, 72 years ago: J. D. Salinger publishes his popular yet controversial novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
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Today in 1782, 241 years ago: in Austria the opera The Abduction in the Seraglio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is premiered.
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Today in 1951, 72 years ago: in Belgium, King Leopold III abdicates in favor of his son Baldwin.
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Today in 1779, 244 years ago: American Revolutionary War: Light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.
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Today in 1957, 66 years ago: KLM Flight 844 crashes off the Schouten Islands in present day Indonesia (then Netherlands New Guinea), killing 58 people.
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Today in 1965, 58 years ago: South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh.
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Today in 1969, 54 years ago: in Cape Canaveral (United States) - within the framework of the Apollo Program - the Apollo 11 mission takes off, the third mission that takes humans to the Moon, and the first to make them land.
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Today in 2002, 21 years ago: on the Island of Perejil begins at 23:43 the Operation Romeo-Sierra for the eviction of the island, which five days before had been occupied by Moroccan forces.
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Today in 1809, 214 years ago: The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo.
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Today in 1994, 29 years ago: In the context of the War of the Bonito, Spanish fishermen take the French boat La Gabrielle, which had illegal fishing nets and protected cetacean species inside, and which had been abandoned due to the risk of sinking. The Spanish fleet takes the ship to the port of Burela, Spain, to denounce these irregularities; in an action that the French government tried to discredit and described as kidnapping.
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