Today in 1963, 60 years ago: in Chile, the ensemble The High & Bass (later known as Los Jaivas) made their first live performance at the Municipal Theater of Viña del Mar.

#OnThisDay

Today in 2015, 8 years ago: North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 81⁄2 hours ahead of UTC.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1514, 509 years ago: in the face of the abuses to which the Indians are subjected, Bartolomé de las Casas renounces the slave commission that had been assigned to him in Hispaniola and returns to Spain.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1519, 504 years ago: Panama City, Panama is founded.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1998, 25 years ago: in the small Northern Irish town of Omagh, Irish patriotic militants of the Authentic IRA carried out a car bomb execution that left 29 dead.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1968, 55 years ago: in Montevideo (Uruguay), a quarter of a million people take to the streets for the murder of the student Líber Arce (who died the day before), against the government of Jorge Pacheco Areco.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1843, 180 years ago: Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1932, 91 years ago: in New York, the CBS television station begins operations, which broadcasts the world's first series: World Magazine.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1950, 73 years ago: Measuring Mw 8.6, the largest earthquake on land occurs in the Assam-Tibet-Myanmar border, killing 4,800.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1954, 69 years ago: Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1620, 403 years ago: in England, the Mayflower departs from the port of Southampton.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1973, 50 years ago: Vietnam War: The USAF bombing of Cambodia ends.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1971, 52 years ago: President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1926, 97 years ago: in Spain the reform of the Baccalaureate Plan is approved.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1965, 58 years ago: The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1989, 34 years ago: in Ecuador, General Villamil is elevated to canton of the Province of Guayas.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1893, 130 years ago: Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.

#OnThisDay

Today in 2021, 2 years ago: in the war in Afghanistan, the Taliban take Kabul, capital of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, self-proclaiming the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and ending the war.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1998, 25 years ago: Anatoly Chubai (Russian foreign debt negotiator), Sergey Dubinin (president of the Central Bank of Moscow) and Sergey Kiriyenko (Russian prime minister) meet in Moscow (Russia) to prevent the devaluation of the ruble.

#OnThisDay

Today in 1991, 32 years ago: the UN Decolonization Committee reaffirms Puerto Rico's right to self-determination of independence.

#OnThisDay