Today in 2005, 18 years ago: the stampede over the Al-Ayma bridge takes place in Baghdad.

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Today in 2006, 17 years ago: Edvard Munch's The Scream and The Madonna -which had been stolen on August 22, 2004- are recovered by Norwegian police after a raid.

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Today in 1808, 215 years ago: in the framework of the Napoleonic Wars, after English troops under Wellington defeated Jean-Andoche Junot, at the Battle of Vimeiro. Portugal (August 21), the Sintra Convention is signed.

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Today in 1950, 73 years ago: Channel 4 (XHTV-TV) is inaugurated in Mexico, which means the formal beginning of Mexican television.

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Today in 1422, 601 years ago: King Henry V of England dies of dysentery while in France. His son, Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of nine months.

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Today in 1928, 95 years ago: in Berlin, the Radio Exhibition presents the television of Dénes von Mihály, with a resolution of 30 lines.

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Today in 1907, 116 years ago: Count Aleksandr Izvolski and Sir Arthur Nicolson sign the Anglo-Russian Entente, the result of which is the Triple Entente.

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Today in 1886, 137 years ago: in Charleston (South Carolina), an earthquake kills 100 people.

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Today in 1999, 24 years ago: The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.

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Today in 2012, 11 years ago: in Spain, Royal Decree-Law 24/2012 on the Restructuring and Resolution of Credit Institutions comes into force, which regulates what is popularly known as the bad bank.

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Today in 1957, 66 years ago: Malaysia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

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Today in 1948, 75 years ago: in the United States, actor Robert Mitchum (1917-1997) is arrested for possession of marijuana (Cannabis indica), and will be sentenced to 60 days in prison.

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Today in 1972, 51 years ago: Aeroflot Flight 558 crashes in the Abzelilovsky District in Bashkortostan, Russia (then the Soviet Union), killing all 102 people aboard.

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Today in 1876, 147 years ago: Ottoman Sultan Murat V is overthrown by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.

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Today in 1941, 82 years ago: World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces (chetniks) defeat the Germans in the battle of Loznica.

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Today in 1535, 488 years ago: Pope Paul III excommunicates English King Henry VIII from the church. He drew up a papal bull of excommunication which began Eius qui immobilis.

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Today in 1967, 56 years ago: Argentina and Chile decided to suspend all fishing activity east of the 68-36 meridian, in the Beagle Channel.

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Today in 1962, 61 years ago: Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

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Today in 1957, 66 years ago: in the Nevada atomic test area (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 4:30 (local time), the United States detonates its 44 kiloton Smokey atomic bomb 210 m underground. It is the 107th of 1129 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.

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Today in 1988, 35 years ago: Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes during takeoff from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, killing 14.

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