Today in 1923, 100 years ago: in Colombia, through Law 42, the Comptroller General of the Republic is created, the highest fiscal control body of the Colombian State.
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Today in 1982, 41 years ago: In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
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Today in 1967, 56 years ago: in the American town of Hendersonville (North Carolina), a Cessna 310 aircraft collides in the air against a Boeing 727 aircraft of the company Piedmont Airlines (1948-1989). Eighty-two people are killed, including John McNaughton (adviser to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara).
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Today in 1926, 97 years ago: in Saguenay (Canada) opens the largest aluminum plant in the world, Alcoa Power Co.
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Today in 2018, 5 years ago: The Knesset passes the controversial Nationality Bill, which defines the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
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Today in 1997, 26 years ago: in Northern Ireland, the Irish Republican Army decrees an unconditional ceasefire to boost the peace process.
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Today in 1900, 123 years ago: in Spain, the zarzuela of the Alvarez Quintero Brothers is premiered with great success The premiere, with music by Ruperto Chapí.
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Today in 1983, 40 years ago: The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
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Today in 1545, 478 years ago: The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology.
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Today in 1701, 322 years ago: Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
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Today in 1848, 175 years ago: in Seneca Falls (near New York City) the first Convention for the Rights of Women is held, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
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Today in 1873, 150 years ago: in Australia, William Gosse is the first European to see Ayers Rock; he renames them in honor of South Australia's premier, Sir Henry Ayers.
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Today in 1936, 87 years ago: Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain – mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces.
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Today in 1821, 202 years ago: Coronation of George IV of the United Kingdom.
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Today in 1924, 99 years ago: in the Aboriginal colony Napalpí, 120 km from the city of Resistencia (capital of the province of Chaco, Argentina) a group of ranchers and 130 policemen kill several hundred people, mostly Aboriginal Tobas and Mocovíes (Napalpí Massacre).
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Today in 1808, 215 years ago: the Battle of Bailén is fought in Spain.
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Today in 1969, 54 years ago: Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
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Today in 1942, 81 years ago: World War II: The Second Happy Time of Hitler's submarines comes to an end, as the increasingly effective American convoy system compels them to return to the central Atlantic.
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Today in 1961, 62 years ago: Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
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Today in 1553, 470 years ago: The attempt to install Lady Jane Grey as Queen of England collapses after only nine days.
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