Today in 1941, 82 years ago: Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, signs the Atlantic Charter with Franklin D. Roosevelt, which reflects the interests of both nations on the treatment of allied, enemy and neutral nations during World War II.
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Today in 2003, 20 years ago: in France, the government admits that the heatwave has claimed 3,000 victims, although health centers handle much higher figures.
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Today in 2003, 20 years ago: A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
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Today in 1980, 43 years ago: Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
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Today in 1967, 56 years ago: Spanish writer Fernando Arrabal is released on bail.
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Today in 2003, 20 years ago: the United Nations Security Council approves an assistance mission for Iraq, lasting twelve months.
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Today in 2000, 23 years ago: Bill Clinton presents presidential candidate Al Gore as a man with a “track record” in the face of George Bush's inexperience.
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Today in 1983, 40 years ago: American athletes get 24 medals in the Athletics World Cup.
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Today in 1920, 103 years ago: The 1920 Summer Olympics, having started four months earlier, officially open in Antwerp, Belgium, with the newly-adopted Olympic flag and the Olympic oath being raised and taken at the Opening Ceremony for the first time in Olympic history.
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Today in 1960, 63 years ago: Australian motorist Jack Brabham is proclaimed Formula 1 champion driving a Cooper-Climax.
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Today in 1913, 110 years ago: in Los Angeles (United States) the longest water line in the world, more than 400 km long, is inaugurated.
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Today in 1947, 76 years ago: in León (Nicaragua), the Gritería Chiquita is celebrated for the first time, on the initiative of Bishop Isidro Augusto Oviedo y Reyes, to calm the eruption of the Cerro Negro volcano that had been active for two weeks, and that since then is celebrated in that city on the eve of the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.
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Today in 1566, 457 years ago: in Flanders, groups of Protestants, led by their Calvinist preachers, are engaged in destroying religious statues of the main churches during the Beeldenstorm.
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Today in 1936, 87 years ago: the Legion, under the command of Juan Yagüe, occupies Badajoz. During the night, and the morning of the following day, the Badajoz Massacre takes place.
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Today in 2006, 17 years ago: the Lebanon War ends, a conflict that affected Lebanon, northern Israel and the Golan Heights for 34 days.
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Today in 1971, 52 years ago: Bahrain declares independence from Britain.
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Today in 1556, 467 years ago: in China, near Canton, the Portuguese settle and found Macau.
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Today in 2004, 19 years ago: Turkish weightlifter Narcan Taylan achieves the world record for starting under 48 kilos at the Olympic Games in Athens.
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Today in 1974, 49 years ago: 430 meters underground, at the Nevada proving ground (102 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:00 local time, the United States detonates its 8 kiloton atomic bomb No. 825, Puye.
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Today in 1952, 71 years ago: the first Spanish ship since 1936 arrives in a British port.
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