Today in 1959, 64 years ago: Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
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Today in 2017, 6 years ago: in Colombia, the third private television channel in Colombia, Channel 1, was born.
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Today in 1502, 521 years ago: in Punta Caxinas, today Punta Castilla, in the bay of Trujillo (Honduras), the first Catholic Mass is celebrated on the mainland of the American continent.
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Today in 2018, 5 years ago: in Barranquilla (Colombia) they inaugurate the monument La Ventana al Mundo.
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Today in 2000, 23 years ago: British and French authorities suspend all Concorde flights following the catastrophe that killed 113 people three weeks earlier.
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Today in 1919, 104 years ago: the new Reich Constitution comes into force in Germany.
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Today in 1985, 38 years ago: in Argentina, the first phase of the trial against the last three military juntas concludes.
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Today in 2015, 8 years ago: The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when Cuba–United States relations were broken off.
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Today in 1900, 123 years ago: Battle of Peking: The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
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Today in 2004, 19 years ago: in Burundi, Hutu rebels claim the slaughter of more than a hundred Congolese Tutsis.
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Today in 2013, 10 years ago: Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
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Today in 2006, 17 years ago: Sri Lankan Civil War: Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike.
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Today in 1979, 44 years ago: Mauritania withdraws from the Western Sahara war.
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Today in 1784, 239 years ago: Russian colonization of North America: Awa’uq Massacre: The Russian fur trader Grigory Shelikhov storms a Kodiak Island Alutiit refuge rock on Sitkalidak Island, killing 500+ Alutiit.
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Today in 1936, 87 years ago: Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
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Today in 2005, 18 years ago: Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
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Today in 1791, 232 years ago: the rebellion of the slaves of Saint Domingue, a former French colony, begins in Bois Caiman, which would culminate 12 years later with the foundation of the Republic of Haiti.
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Today in 1920, 103 years ago: the VII Olympic Games are inaugurated in Antwerp, after an eight-year hiatus imposed by the First World War.
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Today in 1830, 193 years ago: in Riobamba (Ecuador), the first constituent assembly was created.
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Today in 1935, 88 years ago: the Social Security Act comes into force in the United States, thanks to the efforts of President Roosevelt.
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