Today in 1793, 230 years ago: in Toronto (Canada), John Graves Simcoe builds a fort.
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Today in 1990, 33 years ago: Mongolia holds the first free and multiparty elections in its history.
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Today in 1858, 165 years ago: the United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
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Today in 1778, 245 years ago: Constitution of the province of Cantabria in the Juntas House of Puente San Miguel.1794: in Paris (France), Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris.
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Today in 1965, 58 years ago: President Lyndon B. Johnson -in the context of the Vietnam War - announces that he will increase the number of soldiers in South Vietnam, from 75,000 to 125,000.
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Today in 1882, 141 years ago: Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
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Today in 1643, 380 years ago: King Philip IV of Spain establishes Santiago as patron saint of Spain and orders that on this date an annual offering of 1000 escudos be made to the archbishopric of Santiago de Compostela.
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Today in 1943, 80 years ago: World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the King (encouraged by the Grand Council of Fascism) and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
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Today in 1938, 85 years ago: on the Ebro River (Spain) the Republican Army launches a furious offensive against the Francoists. The Battle of the Ebro begins.
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Today in 1976, 47 years ago: Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.
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Today in 1718, 305 years ago: The Treaty of Passarowitz between the Ottoman Empire, Austria and the Republic of Venice is signed.
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Today in 1654, 369 years ago: in the province of Gansu (China), an earthquake of 8 degrees on the Richter scale leaves a balance of 31,000 victims.
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Today in 1973, 50 years ago: in Lillehammer (Norway), members of the Mossad (Israeli secret service) mistakenly kill a waiter by mistaking him for a member of the terrorist gang Black September.
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Today in 1956, 67 years ago: in commemoration of the Congress of Panama (convened by Bolivar in 1826), the presidents of 19 American countries meet and sign a declaration of solidarity in favor of peace and freedom.1956: in Enewetak atoll, the United States detonates the atomic bomb Hurón (name of an ethnic Native American), of 250 kilotons, the last of the 17 of Operation Redwing.
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Today in 1903, 120 years ago: in Ciudad Bolívar, the last battle of the Liberation Revolution was fought where the government army under Juan Vicente Gómez defeats the opposition forces of General Nicolás Rolando.
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Today in 2001, 22 years ago: At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
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Today in 1798, 225 years ago: French campaign in Egypt and Syria: Napoleon's forces defeat an Ottoman-Mamluk army near Cairo in the Battle of the Pyramids.
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Today in 1773, 250 years ago: Pope Clement XIV orders the dissolution of the Society of Jesus.
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Today in 1997, 26 years ago: the National Court of Spain sentences to 109 years in prison the three members of the terrorist band ETA, who plotted an attack against King Juan Carlos.
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Today in 1921, 102 years ago: Hans Koning, Dutch writer and polemicist (d. 2007).
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