Today in 1901, 122 years ago: celebration of international regattas in Santander.
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Today in 1545, 478 years ago: The first landing of French troops on the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion of the Isle of Wight.
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Today in 1972, 51 years ago: The Troubles: Bloody Friday: The Provisional IRA detonate 22 bombs in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom in the space of 80 minutes, killing nine and injuring 130.
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Today in 1917, 106 years ago: Germans dropped the first asphyxiating gas bombs during World War I.
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Today in 1949, 74 years ago: The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
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Today in 1906, 117 years ago: Through the mediation of Theodore Roosevelt and Porfirio Díaz, peace was signed between Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
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Today in 1980, 43 years ago: Salah Bitar, founder of the Baath Arab Socialist Party and former prime minister of Syria, is assassinated in Paris.
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Today in 1865, 158 years ago: In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
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Today in 1940, 83 years ago: Germany begins plans to attack the Soviet Union during World War II.
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Today in 1961, 62 years ago: Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
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Today in 1959, 64 years ago: the Spanish Government approves the decree-law 10/1959, called New Economic Order, which gives legal concretion to the so-called "Stabilization Plan" (and liberalization), elaborated in agreement with the experts of the IMF and the OECE.
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Today in 1987, 36 years ago: American hard rock band Guns N' Roses released the album Appetite for Destruction.
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Today in 2007, 16 years ago: the Burj Khalifa surpasses the tallest building in the world, the Taipei 101.
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Today in 2012, 11 years ago: Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
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Today in 2003, 20 years ago: swimmer Nina Zhivanevskaya beats Spain's record of 100 meters back.
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Today in 2004, 19 years ago: the Basque independence party Batasuna appeals its illegalisation before the Court of Strasbourg, after exhausting all judicial procedures in Spain.
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Today in 1930, 93 years ago: in Zaragoza (Spain) the El Palomar airfield is inaugurated.
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Today in 1917, 106 years ago: Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pašić publishes a plan for a union of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes into a Serbian monarchy.
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Today in 1847, 176 years ago: the treaty of peace and friendship is signed by which Spain renounced sovereignty over the territories that make up the Republic of Bolivia.
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Today in 1970, 53 years ago: the works of the gigantic Aswan Dam in Egypt are completed.
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