Today in 1823, 200 years ago: in the Bay of Cadiz, French forces led by Luis Antonio de Francia (Duke of Angoulême) seize the Trocadero fort in the Battle of Trocadero.
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Today in 1776, 247 years ago: William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, begins serving his first term.
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Today in 1989, 34 years ago: Libya and Chad sign an agreement on the Auzu strip, ending more than 15 years of border litigation between the two countries.
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Today in 1996, 27 years ago: in Khasavyurt (Dagestan) the peace agreement is signed after 20 months of war in Chechnya
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Today in 1883, 140 years ago: in Jujuy (Argentina), by provincial law, the foundation of a town with the name of "Siberia Argentina" was arranged, in the place known as Abra Pampa.
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Today in 1876, 147 years ago: Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.
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Today in 1992, 31 years ago: in the Republic of the Congo, Pascal Lissouba is appointed president.
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Today in 1962, 61 years ago: Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
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Today in 1971, 52 years ago: South Vietnamese troops withdraw from Cambodia.
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Today in 1997, 26 years ago: in Paris (France), Diana Spencer (Lady DI), Princess of Wales, dies in a car accident.
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Today in 1978, 45 years ago: in the Nevada atomic test area (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:00 (local time), the United States detonates its 8 kiloton Panir atomic bomb 681 m underground. It is the 913th of 1129 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
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Today in 1901, 122 years ago: in Chile, Germán Riesco is proclaimed president.
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Today in 1928, 95 years ago: Bertolt Brecht's Three Cent Opera opens in Berlin, with music by Kurt Weill.
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Today in 1927, 96 years ago: Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth discovers the asteroid Amaryllis (1085).
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Today in 1918, 105 years ago: World War I: Start of the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin, a successful assault by the Australian Corps during the Hundred Days Offensive.
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Today in 1990, 33 years ago: the Federal Republic of Germany (neoliberal) and the German Democratic Republic (socialist) sign the Agreement for the reunification of Germany.
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Today in 1947, 76 years ago: in Hungary, the Communists win the elections.
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Today in 1918, 105 years ago: in Moscow, the British consul Bruce Lockhart is arrested and accused of conspiring against the Soviet Government.
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Today in 2018, 5 years ago: In Donetsk (Ukraine), Aleksandr Zakharchenko, leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, is killed by an explosion in a coffee shop
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Today in 1999, 24 years ago: a Boeing 737-200 crashes at the Jorge Newbery Airport in Buenos Aires, killing sixty-five people.
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