Today in 1982, 41 years ago: in the bullring of Las Ventas, Madrid, there is the pardon of the Belador bull, from the livestock of Mr. Victorino Martín, by the right-hander José Ortega Cano. He is the only bull pardoned to this day in that bullring.
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Today in 1994, 29 years ago: in Panama, terrorist attack on Flight 901 of Alas Chiricanas where 21 people died.
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Today in 1957, 66 years ago: The largely autobiographical novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh was published.
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Today in 1747, 276 years ago: in Italy the battle of Assietta is fought, in the Susa Valley, the meager Piedmontese troops defeat the French army of Louis XV.
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Today in 1544, 479 years ago: Italian War of 1542–46: The first Siege of Boulogne begins.
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Today in 1947, 76 years ago: in Burma, the nationalist Aung San and six of his cabinet members are murdered.
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Today in 1870, 153 years ago: France declares war on Prussia. Beginning of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871).
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Today in 1936, 87 years ago: in Spain, the unions rise up against the military coup, the Spanish civil war begins.
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Today in 1976, 47 years ago: Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
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Today in 1985, 38 years ago: In the United States, Vice President George H. W. Bush announces that teacher Christa McAuliffe will be the first civilian to travel on the space shuttle Challenger.
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Today in 1920, 103 years ago: in Petrograd (Soviet Union), at the initiative of Lenin, the Second Congress of the Communist International (founded in 1919 with the name of Comintern) is inaugurated.
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Today in 1972, 51 years ago: in El Salvador, President Arturo Armando Molina orders a military intervention against the University of El Salvador to keep it closed for a year.
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Today in 2001, 22 years ago: in the United Kingdom, justice sentences the politician and novelist Jeffrey Archer four years in prison for perjury and for perverting the course of justice.
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Today in 1821, 202 years ago: in London (England), George IV of the United Kingdom is crowned king.
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Today in 1963, 60 years ago: Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
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Today in 1845, 178 years ago: in New York (United States), a fire destroys more than 300 buildings and causes a minimum of 30 deaths.
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Today in 1989, 34 years ago: in Poland, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, sole candidate, becomes president.
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Today in 1863, 160 years ago: American Civil War: Morgan's Raid: At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
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Today in 1987, 36 years ago: in Portugal, the Social Democratic party of Aníbal Cavaco Silva wins in the legislative elections.
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*1964 – Vietnam War: at a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
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