Today in 1981, 42 years ago: The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
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Today in 1960, 63 years ago: in Africa, Côte d 'Ivoire becomes independent from France.
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Today in 1944, 79 years ago: IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
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Today in 1890, 133 years ago: Anna Månsdotter, found guilty of the 1889 Yngsjö murder, became the last woman to be executed in Sweden.
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Today in 2007, 16 years ago: American baseball player Barry Bonds hit the 756th homer of his life, thus surpassing the all-time record held by Hank Aaron (755).
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Today in 1933, 90 years ago: The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. This date is recognized as Martyrs Day or National Day of Mourning by the Assyrian community in memory of the Simele massacre.
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Today in 1958, 65 years ago: Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy, outlawing the Communist Party of Chile and banning 26,650 persons from the electoral lists, is repealed in Chile.
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Today in 2010, 13 years ago: Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people.
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Today in 1806, 217 years ago: Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares the moribund empire to be dissolved, although he retains power in the Austrian Empire.
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Today in 1539, 484 years ago: in present-day Colombia, Gonzalo Suárez Rendón founded Tunja, currently the capital of the department of Boyacá.
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Today in 2008, 15 years ago: A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
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Today in 1456, 567 years ago: in the Kingdom of Hungary, the Siege of Belgrade ends with the victory of Hungarian troops, with Serbian and Crusader support, over the Ottoman Empire of Mehmed II.
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Today in 1825, 198 years ago: Simón Bolívar declares the independence of Bolivia, considered as a commemorative date of Bolivia.
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Today in 1964, 59 years ago: in the mountains of Nevada (United States), an American geography professor named Donald Currey (1934-2004) cuts "for research purposes" the long-lived Prometheus pine, which - at just over 5,000 years old- was the oldest living organism on Earth. (See Methuselah tree).
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Today in 1538, 485 years ago: in present-day Colombia, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada founded Santa Fe de Bogotá, currently the capital of the country.
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Today in 1997, 26 years ago: Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam, killing 229 of the 254 people on board.
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Today in 1991, 32 years ago: at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee brings the first web server online.
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Today in 1958, 65 years ago: in Argentina, President Arturo Frondizi created Yacimientos Carboníferos Fiscales (YCF) by decree.
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Today in 1919, 104 years ago: in the town of Milpa Alta -then municipality of the Federal District (Mexico)- Generals Manuel Palafox, Everardo González Beltrán and Tomás García, among others, proclaim the Milpa Alta Plan.
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Today in 1965, 58 years ago: US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
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