Today in 1971, 52 years ago: Presidents Misael Pastrana (of Colombia) and Salvador Allende (of Chile) sign a joint declaration affirming respect for ideological diversity.

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Today in 1967, 56 years ago: in the Nevada atomic test area (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 80:30 (local time), the United States detonates its 20 kiloton Door Mist atomic bomb 436 m underground. It is the 518th of 1129 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.

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Today in 2006, 17 years ago: the deadline for Iran to communicate its decision on the international community's proposal on its uranium enrichment program ends.

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Today in 1986, 37 years ago: in the American city of Cerritos (Los Angeles), a Douglas DC-9 plane (from the company Aeromexico) collides in the air with a Piper Cherokee. 82 people die.

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Today in 1991, 32 years ago: Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan become independent from the Soviet Union.

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Today in 1991, 32 years ago: Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

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Today in 1942, 81 years ago: In Ternopil (Ukraine), an SS brigade organizes the first deportation of Jews from the Ternopil ghetto to the Belzec death camp.

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Today in 1986, 37 years ago: The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.

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Today in 2012, 11 years ago: In Lahore, Pakistan, Pakistan International Airlines Flight 653 goes off the runway while landing at Lahore Airport.

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Today in 1963, 60 years ago: Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah) achieves self governance.

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Today in 1825, 198 years ago: the kingdom of Portugal recognizes the independence of the Brazilian Empire, by paying an indemnity of one million pounds sterling.

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Today in 1521, 502 years ago: the Ottoman Turks capture Nándorfehérvár (today Belgrade).

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Today in 1942, 81 years ago: in the concentration camp of Jasenovac (Croatia) -in the context of the Serbian genocide -, the Franciscan Catholic seminarian Petar Brzica (1917-2010) slaughtered 1,360 non-Catholics (Christian Serbs, Muslim Serbs and Gypsies). Until the arrival of communism in 1945, between 0.3 and 0.4 million men, women and children will die in that Catholic fascist camp.

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Today in 1728, 295 years ago: Claus Paarss founded the city of Nuuk, the current capital of Greenland.

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Today in 1991, 32 years ago: Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo, is killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.

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Today in 1982, 41 years ago: in Darmstadt (Germany) the artificial chemical element meitnerium, atomic number 109, is synthesized for the first time.

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Today in 1975, 48 years ago: in Peru, Francisco Morales Bermúdez leads a coup d 'état against the government of President Juan Velasco Alvarado known as the Tacnazo.

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Today in 1972, 51 years ago: The Games of the XX Olympiad open in Munich, West Germany.

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Today in 2021, 2 years ago: During the 2021 Kabul airlift, a suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport kills 13 US military personnel and at least 169 Afghan civilians.

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Today in 1702, 321 years ago: as part of the War of the Spanish Succession, an Anglo-Dutch expeditionary corps landed in Rota (Cádiz) and plundered several towns in the province.

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