Today in 1968, 55 years ago: in Guipúzcoa - within the framework of the Franco dictatorship in Spain- a state of emergency was declared, with a planned duration of three months, and 50 arrests were made.
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Today in 1962, 61 years ago: American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose.
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Today in 1923, 100 years ago: Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa was founded in León (Spain).
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Today in 1914, 109 years ago: Spain and the United States declare themselves neutral in World War I (1914-1918).
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Today in 2012, 11 years ago: The Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting took place in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six victims; the perpetrator committed suicide after being wounded by police.
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Today in 1906, 117 years ago: Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, King of Iran, agrees to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
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Today in 1969, 54 years ago: The Lonesome Cowboys police raid occurs in Atlanta, Georgia, leading to the creation of the Georgia Gay Liberation Front.
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Today in 1960, 63 years ago: Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
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Today in 1956, 67 years ago: in Germany, the Argentine driver Juan Manuel Fangio wins, with the Ferrari team, the German Formula 1 Grand Prix.
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Today in 1796, 227 years ago: The Battle of Castiglione in Napoleon's first Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars.
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Today in 1884, 139 years ago: The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
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Today in 1620, 403 years ago: The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England, carrying would-be settlers, on its first attempt to reach North America; it is forced to dock in Dartmouth when its companion ship, the Speedwell, springs a leak.
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Today in 1689, 334 years ago: Beaver Wars: Fifteen hundred Iroquois attack Lachine in New France.
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Today in 2014, 9 years ago: in Bogotá (Colombia), student Sergio Urrego (16) commits suicide due to the discrimination he was a victim of at the Gimnasio Castillo Campestre school.
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Today in 1994, 29 years ago: Balkan War: Belgrade breaks with the Bosnian Serbs by rejecting the peace plan.
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Today in 1960, 63 years ago: the III Congress of Spanish Language Academies, held in Bogotá, rejected the expression Latin America as incorrect.
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Today in 1983, 40 years ago: in Italy, Bettino Craxi is the first socialist to preside over a government in that country.
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Today in 1996, 27 years ago: the 1996 Olympic Games end in the city of Atlanta.
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Today in 1944, 79 years ago: The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.
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Today in 1886, 137 years ago: in Colombia, Rafael Núñez betrays the oath to defend the Constitution of Río Negro (1863) and promulgates the Constitution of the Republic of Colombia, which ends federalism and opens the way to the 44 years of conservative hegemony that end with the arrival to the presidency of the boyacense Enrique Olaya Herrera.
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