Today in 1996, 27 years ago: Emilio Zapico died in Huete, Spain, in a plane crash.
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Today in 2023: Enzo Morales Rodríguez was born in Ourense (Spain).
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Today in 1940, 83 years ago: Estonia is annexed by the Soviet Union.
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Today in 1792, 231 years ago: in Paris (France) 600 chosen republicans of Marseilles parade through the city singing a new song that will soon become a symbol of the French Revolution: La Marseillaise.
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Today in 1989, 34 years ago: Jaime Paz Zamora takes office as president of Bolivia.
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Today in 1986, 37 years ago: in the Peruvian city of Aucayacu (province of Leoncio Prado), the terrorist gang Sendero Luminoso murders ten homosexual people, with the aim of intimidating the population.
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Today in 1983, 40 years ago: in Chile, the opposition parties form the Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia.
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Today in 2001, 22 years ago: Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.
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Today in 2011, 12 years ago: War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
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Today in 1997, 26 years ago: Hugo Banzer assumes the presidency of Bolivia for the second and last time.
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Today in 1991, 32 years ago: Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet.
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Today in 1982, 41 years ago: democracy was established in Bolivia when Hernán Siles Zuazo assumed the presidency of the Republic.
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Today in 1824, 199 years ago: Peruvian War of Independence: Patriot forces led by Simón Bolívar defeat the Spanish Royalist army in the Battle of Junín.
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Today in 1538, 485 years ago: Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
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Today in 1901, 122 years ago: Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
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Today in 1813, 210 years ago: Simón Bolívar arrives in Caracas after having completed the Admirable Campaign.
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Today in 2015, 8 years ago: A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.
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Today in 1986, 37 years ago: A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Today in 2013, 10 years ago: in a building in the center of the city of Rosario (Argentina), a gas leak causes an explosion that demolishes the building and leaves a balance of 21 dead and 62 injured.
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Today in 1914, 109 years ago: World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
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