Today in 1966, 57 years ago: Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), the predecessor of the United Farm Workers.

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Today in 1991, 32 years ago: Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states.

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Today in 1849, 174 years ago: Passaleão incident: João Maria Ferreira do Amaral, the governor of Portuguese Macau, is assassinated by a group of Chinese locals, triggering a military confrontation between China and Portugal at the Battle of Passaleão three days after.

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Today in 1959, 64 years ago: in Chile, the Television Corporation of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (now Channel 13) opens its doors by starting its transmissions.

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Today in 1831, 192 years ago: Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, which will claim the lives of 55 to 65 whites and about twice that number of blacks.

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Today in 1879, 144 years ago: The locals of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland report their having seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary. The apparition is later named “Our Lady of Knock” and the spot transformed into a Catholic pilgrimage site.

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Today in 1772, 251 years ago: Gustav III of Sweden completes his coup d 'état and establishes a new Constitution after which he becomes an enlightened despot.

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Today in 1883, 140 years ago: An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.

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Today in 1831, 192 years ago: in the United States, Nat Turner's failed rebellion occurs.

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Today in 1968, 55 years ago: Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.

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Today in 1821, 202 years ago: Jarvis Island is discovered by the British ship Eliza Francis.

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Today in 1945, 78 years ago: Physicist Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Today in 1983, 40 years ago: Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. is assassinated at Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor).

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Today in 2006, 17 years ago: in Villada (Palencia) the Day Train Nº280 derails, causing 6 deaths and razing the pillars of a bridge.

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Today in 1862, 161 years ago: The Stadtpark, the first public park in Vienna, opens to the public.

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Today in 1986, 37 years ago: in Cameroon, about 1,700 people died of poisoning in a volcanic area near Lake Nyos, as a result of a strange geological phenomenon (emission of carbon monoxide) coming from the magmatic layer of the Earth.

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Today in 1989, 34 years ago: at the meeting of the Latin American chapter of the International Union of Municipalities and Powers, in the city of Cuenca (Ecuador) representatives of all Latin American countries declare that the town of Grecia (in Costa Rica) is the "cleanest city in Latin America".

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Today in 2018, 5 years ago: a magnitude 7.3 earthquake shakes eastern Venezuela, with an epicenter in Sucre.

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Today in 1969, 54 years ago: In West Germany, at 1:00 am, the 84 hours of the Nürburgring start, where the Argentine-made IKA Torino have an outstanding performance, under the sports management of Juan Manuel Fangio.

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Today in 2012, 11 years ago: A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.

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