Today in 1914, 109 years ago: World War I: The United Kingdom and the British Empire declare war on Austria-Hungary.

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Today in 1994, 29 years ago: Major League Baseball players go on strike, eventually forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.

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Today in 1963, 60 years ago: 302 meters underground, at the Nevada proving ground (102 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 3:45 p.m. local time the United States detonates its 995th atomic bomb, Pekan (8 kilotons).

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Today in 2015, 8 years ago: At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin, China.

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Today in 1986, 37 years ago: Japan launches its Ajisai geodetic satellite.

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Today in 1955, 68 years ago: the first flight of the Saeta jet plane takes place in Spain.

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Today in 1948, 75 years ago: Babrra massacre: About 600 unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement are shot dead on the orders of the Chief Minister of the North-West Frontier Province, Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri, on Babrra ground in the Hashtnagar region of Charsadda District, North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan.

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Today in 1962, 61 years ago: in Cáceres (Spain) the urban complex of Trujillo is declared a "historical-artistic monumental city".

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Today in 1997, 26 years ago: the Israeli army carries out a bombing a few kilometers from the border with Syria, which again puts the peace process between Palestinians and Israelis in crisis.

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Today in 2020, 3 years ago: Derecho in Iowa becomes the most costly thunderstorm disaster in U.S. history.

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Today in 2018, 5 years ago: Horizon Air employee Richard Russell hijacks and performs an unauthorized takeoff on a Horizon Air Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 plane at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport in Washington, flying it for more than an hour before crashing the plane and killing himself on Ketron Island in Puget Sound.

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Today in 1901, 122 years ago: The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.

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Today in 1998, 25 years ago: Jamil Mahuad takes office as president of Ecuador.

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Today in 1949, 74 years ago: boxer Luis Romero is proclaimed European bantamweight champion.

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Today in 1983, 40 years ago: off the island of Heligoland (in the North Sea) the organization Greenpeace prevents the dumping of acid into the sea by the chemical consortium Kronos Titan.

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Today in 1938, 85 years ago: the Nemesio Camacho El Campín Stadium was inaugurated in Bogotá (Colombia).

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Today in 1995, 28 years ago: in the municipality of Yebra (Guadalajara), heavy rains in central Spain caused the death of eleven people.

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Today in 2004, 19 years ago: in the United States, President George W. Bush appoints Republican Congressman Porter Goss as director of the CIA.

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Today in 1904, 119 years ago: Port Arthur witnesses the disastrous defeat of the Russian fleet caused by the Japanese navy during the course of the Russo-Japanese War.

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Today in 2006, 17 years ago: the British police arrested 24 suspected terrorists who intended to attack imminently.

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