Today in 1987, 36 years ago: The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
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Today in 1989, 34 years ago: the Government and the Nicaraguan opposition reach a pact to hold free elections in February and to demobilize the "contra".
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Today in 1789, 234 years ago: in France, the National Assembly of the French Revolution abolishes the privileges of the aristocracy and the feudal regime.
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Today in 1907, 116 years ago: in Morocco, the city of Casablanca is bombed by the French ship Galilée.
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Today in 2004, 19 years ago: Nigerian police discover more than 50 bodies in the south of the country, in areas where the practice of black magic is common.
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Today in 1974, 49 years ago: an attack on the Rome-Munich express, claimed by the neo-fascists of the Black Order, caused 12 deaths and 48 injuries, all of them Italians.
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Today in 2011, 12 years ago: in Chile, within the framework of the student mobilizations, a large protest is held in defense of public education by university and high school students, with a strong police repression, and cacerolazos were heard in several cities of the country in support of the student movement.
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Today in 1958, 65 years ago: in Mexico, President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines mobilizes the army to repress the long strike of railway workers.
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Today in 1960, 63 years ago: Niger gains independence from France.
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Today in 1777, 246 years ago: at Fort Stanwix ―site of the present city of Rome (in the state of New York) the first flag of the United States is hoisted for the first time.
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Today in 2005, 18 years ago: in Mauritania, a coup d 'état overthrows President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, who was in Saudi Arabia.
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Today in 1988, 35 years ago: the young pilot Mathias Rust, convicted of landing with a small plane in Moscow's Red Square, is released and expelled from the Soviet Union.
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Today in 1947, 76 years ago: in Indonesia, at the request of the UN, the Dutch invaders and Indonesian nationalists accept the ceasefire.
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Today in 1900, 123 years ago: The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
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Today in 1977, 46 years ago: in a mine in Mozambique, an explosion of grisou causes the death of 150 miners. In the riots that followed the tragedy, nine foreign technicians died.
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Today in 2006, 17 years ago: in Ukraine, President Viktor Yushchenko and the leaders of the Ukrainian political parties represented in the Verkhovna Rada (parliament), sign the Universal Proclamation of National Unity, ending a serious crisis in the country.
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Today in 1907, 116 years ago: in Barcelona the number 1 license plate of cars is issued, for a car of the Barcelona company Hispano-Suiza.
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Today in 1999, 24 years ago: the VHS version of the video Free Tibet is released, a compilation of the concerts organized for the liberation of Tibet from Chinese oppression.
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Today in 1978, 45 years ago: the United States postpones the arms embargo on Chile.
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Today in 1978, 45 years ago: Ezedin Kalak, head of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) office in France, is assassinated in Paris.
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