Today in 1914, 109 years ago: in Germany, the Reichstag unanimously approves war credits.

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Today in 1846, 177 years ago: the State of Iowa is admitted to the American Union.

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Today in 1796, 227 years ago: French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.

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Today in 2004, 19 years ago: Paraguay: Five people accused of homicide are imprisoned for the fire in a shopping center in Asuncion in which about 500 people died.

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Today in 1964, 59 years ago: the film El spontáneo, by Jorge Grau, premiered in Barcelona (Spain).

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Today in 1906, 117 years ago: near Cabo de Palos (Spain) the Sirio was wrecked. More than two hundred people drown.

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Today in 1790, 233 years ago: A newly passed tariff act creates the Revenue Cutter Service (the forerunner of the United States Coast Guard).

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Today in 2021, 2 years ago: at Tokyo 2020, in the debut of Skateboarding Park as an Olympic discipline, Sky Brown was consecrated with the bronze medal, becoming the youngest British athlete to take a podium in the entire history of the Olympic Games, at 13 years old.

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Today in 1964, 59 years ago: in North Vietnam, American aviation begins to bomb areas inhabited by civilians.

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Today in 1914, 109 years ago: the opera El sueño del alma, by the Argentine composer Carlos López Buchardo, premiered at the Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires).

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Today in 1950, 73 years ago: in Venezuela, two strong earthquakes shake the west of the country: the city of El Tocuyo is totally destroyed.

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Today in 1994, 29 years ago: Cuba: the mass exodus of Cuban rafters begins.

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Today in 1934, 89 years ago: in the United Kingdom, the Britannia wins the Cowes race for large yachts.

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Today in 1937, 86 years ago: the National Guard was founded in Venezuela following the model of the Spanish Civil Guard.

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Today in 1701, 322 years ago: Great Peace of Montreal between New France and First Nations is signed.

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Today in 1540, 483 years ago: in Peru the city of Yungay was founded. 1578: Battle of Alcazarquivir, between Portuguese and Moroccan troops, in which King Sebastian I of Portugal perished.

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Today in 2014, 9 years ago: Pope Francis disavows and revokes the suspension a divinis of the exercise of the priesthood with which Pope John Paul II -thirty years earlier, in the framework of the Cold War - had punished the Nicaraguan priests Ernesto Cardenal (59), Fernando Cardenal (50, brother of the previous one), Miguel d'Escoto (51) and Edgard Parrales, due to their ascription to liberation theology.

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Today in 1791, 232 years ago: The Treaty of Sistova is signed, ending the Ottoman–Habsburg wars.

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Today in 1863, 160 years ago: Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.

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Today in 1892, 131 years ago: The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She will be tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.

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