Today in 1988, 35 years ago: the Democratic Party appoints Michael Dukakis as a candidate for the U.S. presidential election.
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Today in 1454, 569 years ago: Henry IV is proclaimed king of Castile after the death of his father, John II, in Valladolid.
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Today in 1977, 46 years ago: in Spain, prisoner mutinies take place in eight provinces.
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Today in 1876, 147 years ago: a law was passed that annuls the provincial government of the Basque provinces.
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Today in 1964, 59 years ago: A series of racial riots break out in Singapore. In the next six weeks, 23 die with 454 others injured.
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Today in 1976, 47 years ago: Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, is assassinated by the Provisional IRA.
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Today in 1962, 61 years ago: American Harold Connolly sets the world record for hammer throwing at 70.67 meters.
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Today in 2013, 10 years ago: in the crown of Belgium, King Albert II abdicates and is succeeded by his son Felipe.
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Today in 1986, 37 years ago: Israeli Prime Minister Simon Peres visits Rabat to meet with King Hassan II of Morocco.
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Today in 1775, 248 years ago: the construction of the new capital of Guatemala begins (the previous one, called the Antigua, was destroyed by an earthquake in 1773). It is located 40 km from the previous one and will be called Guatemala City.
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Today in 1974, 49 years ago: in Manila (Philippines), the Spanish Amparo Muñoz is elected Miss Universe.
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Today in 1946, 77 years ago: in the city of La Paz (Bolivia) a mob takes the Government Palace, assassinates President Gualberto Villarroel and hangs him from a lantern in Murillo Square along with three of his collaborators: Luis Uría de la Oliva (his private secretary), Captain Waldo Ballivián (his aide-de-camp) and Roberto Hinojosa (director of the newspaper Cumbre).
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Today in 1925, 98 years ago: Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching human evolution in class and fined $100.
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Today in 1870, 153 years ago: the café de Fornos is inaugurated in Madrid.
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Today in 1981, 42 years ago: the kings of Spain decide not to attend the wedding of Prince Charles of England and Lady Diana Spencer, after the announcement that the couple would start their honeymoon in Gibraltar.
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Today in 1978, 45 years ago: in Madrid (Spain), the terrorist gang ETA murders General Juan Sánchez Ramos-Izquierdo and his assistant.
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Today in 1568, 455 years ago: Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau.
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Today in 1972, 51 years ago: almost 80 dead and more than 120 injured is the provisional toll thrown by the accident involving two trains near the town of Lebrija (Seville). Apparently, the driver of one of the trains did not take into account a warning light.
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Today in 1990, 33 years ago: historic presentation of the English musician Roger Waters in Berlin, celebrating the reunification of Germany. Nearly 300,000 people watch the rock show The Wall, performed at the site of the Berlin Wall.
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Today in 1877, 146 years ago: After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
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