Today in 1998, 25 years ago: Apple introduces the iMac computer.

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Today in 2013, 10 years ago: The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous species found in the Americas in 35 years.

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Today in 1962, 61 years ago: James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.

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Today in 1948, 75 years ago: The First Republic of Korea (South Korea) is established in the southern half of the peninsula.

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Today in 1914, 109 years ago: World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.

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Today in 1947, 76 years ago: India gains independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Today in 1539, 484 years ago: in the Viceroyalty of Peru, the Very Noble and Loyal City of the Knights of León de Huánuco (now Huánuco) was founded.

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Today in 1537, 486 years ago: in the Viceroyalty of Peru, Juan de Salazar founded Asunción del Paraguay.

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Today in 1984, 39 years ago: The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish Armed Forces with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh.

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Today in 1947, 76 years ago: Pakistan becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

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Today in 1969, 54 years ago: 207 and 213 meters underground, at the Nevada proving ground (102 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:30 local time, the United States detonates the Spider 1 and Spider 2 atomic bombs (of 1 kiloton each). They are the 629 and 630 bombs of the 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.

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Today in 2021, 2 years ago: a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits Haiti.

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Today in 2003, 20 years ago: the largest “blackout” on record in North American history: A power outage affects some states in the northeastern United States and part of Canada, including cities such as New York and Toronto.

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Today in 1967, 56 years ago: UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.

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Today in 1992, 31 years ago: in Kabul (Afghanistan), thousands of people try to escape from the city, bombed by the leader of the fundamentalists, Hezbi Islami.

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Today in 1985, 38 years ago: 183 meters underground, at the Nevada proving ground (102 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 5:00 local time, the United States detonates its atomic bomb No. 1032 Cebrero, of 20 kilotons.

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Today in 1598, 425 years ago: Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeat an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.

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Today in 1914, 109 years ago: Japan declares war on Germany.

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Today in 1992, 31 years ago: in Mbale (Uganda) at 12:40 UTC a meteorite of about 190 kg falls in an area of 3 × 7 km. A fragment of 3 grams passes through a banana tree and hits a teenager on the head, without causing him harm. It is the second known case of a person hit by a stone from space (the first was the Hodges meteorite, on November 30, 1954, in the United States).

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Today in 1901, 122 years ago: in the United States, an aircraft built by aviation pioneer Gustave Whitehead manages to rise to 15 meters and travel a distance of 800 meters.

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