Today in 1939, 84 years ago: formation of the Second Francoist Government of Spain (1939-1941).

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Today in 1945, 78 years ago: in Nagasaki (Japan), the United States carried out the second detonation of a Fat Man atomic bomb against civilians in history.

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Today in 2021, 2 years ago: The Tampere light rail officially started operating.

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Today in 1907, 116 years ago: The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.

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Today in 1995, 28 years ago: at the Chichontepec volcano (El Salvador), at 20:14, Aviateca flight 901 crashed; it is considered the worst plane crash in the history of that country.

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Today in 2009, 14 years ago: Chelsea Football Club wins their fourth FA Community Shield by defeating Manchester United 4-1 in the penalty shootout.

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Today in 2013, 10 years ago: Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people and injuring 30.

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Today in 1944, 79 years ago: World War II: Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war.

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Today in 1540, 483 years ago: in Valle del Cauca (Colombia), the Spaniard Jorge Robledo (1500-1546) founded the village of Cartago.

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Today in 1972, 51 years ago: In the Final of the Mexican First Division played at Estadio Azteca, Cruz Azul defeated Club América 4-1 to become Mexican Football Champion, giving rise to the Clásico Joven

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Today in 1884, 139 years ago: San José (Costa Rica) becomes the first city in Latin America to have electric lighting.

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Today in 1830, 193 years ago: Louis Philippe becomes the king of the French following abdication of Charles X.

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Today in 1969, 54 years ago: Tate–LaBianca murders: Followers of Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.

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Today in 2006, 17 years ago: At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests are made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation.

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Today in 2002, 21 years ago: in the District of Cacadu (South Africa) the repatriated remains of Sara Baartman (Gamtoos River, 1789-Paris, 1815), a slave of the Khoikhoi (pejoratively "Hottentote") ethnic group exhibited in British and French circuses, are buried.

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Today in 1945, 78 years ago: World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200–28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.

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Today in 2001, 22 years ago: the United States launched the Genesis probe with the mission of studying the solar wind.

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Today in 1998, 25 years ago: Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan is raided by Taliban leading to the deaths of ten Iranian diplomats and a journalist.

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Today in 1973, 50 years ago: Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.

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Today in 1817, 206 years ago: in Venezuela, the Spanish general Pablo Morillo together with 2,000 royalist soldiers besieges Juan Griego, on Margarita Island.

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