Today in 1989, 34 years ago: U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.
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Today in 1978, 45 years ago: in Colombia, Julio César Turbay takes over as president.
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Today in 1933, 90 years ago: in the Simele massacre (Iraq), more than 3,000 Assyrian Iraqis are killed by Iraqi soldiers.
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Today in 1970, 53 years ago: in Colombia, Misael Pastrana takes over as president.
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Today in 1997, 26 years ago: Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Today in 1890, 133 years ago: in Buenos Aires, after the resignation of President Miguel Juárez Celman, Carlos Pellegrini assumes the presidency.
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Today in 1819, 204 years ago: with the victory in the battle of Boyacá, Colombia became independent from the Kingdom of Spain.
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Today in 2014, 9 years ago: in Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos assumes as president for the second time for the period 2014-2018.
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Today in 1974, 49 years ago: in Colombia, Alfonso López Michelsen takes over as president.
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Today in 1946, 77 years ago: The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.
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Today in 1964, 59 years ago: the United States officially enters the Vietnam War after having approved a bombing on North Vietnamese territory.
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Today in 1982, 41 years ago: in Colombia, Belisario Betancur takes over as president.
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Today in 1679, 344 years ago: The brigantine Le Griffon becomes the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
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Today in 1959, 64 years ago: the United States launches Explorer 6 to take the first picture of Earth from a satellite.
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Today in 2020, 3 years ago: Air India Express Flight 1344 overshoots the runway at Calicut International Airport in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India, and crashes, killing 21 of the 190 people on board.
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Today in 1791, 232 years ago: American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
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Today in 1990, 33 years ago: after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Turkey closes the pipeline that transported Iraqi oil to the Mediterranean.
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Today in 1794, 229 years ago: U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
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Today in 1978, 45 years ago: in Honduras, a military triumvirate carried out a coup d 'état and deposed General Juan Alberto Melgar Castro (head of state).
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Today in 1825, 198 years ago: in Peru, the Venezuelan general Simón Bolívar founded the Glorious National College of San Carlos.
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