Today in 1971, 52 years ago: The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to protest against the upcoming Cannikin nuclear weapon test in Alaska.

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Today in 2017, 6 years ago: The Parsons Green bombing takes place in London.

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Today in 1981, 42 years ago: Vanuatu joins the UN.

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Today in 1714, 309 years ago: The Council of One Hundred of Barcelona, the institution of municipal self-government, is abolished after the entry of the Duke of Berwick into the city.​

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Today in 1876, 147 years ago: in Argentina begins its publication The Buenos Aires Herald.

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Today in 1762, 261 years ago: Seven Years' War: Battle of Signal Hill.

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Today in 1898, 125 years ago: in the municipality of Tecalitlán (Mexico), the young Gaspar Vargas López (1880-1969) founded Mariachi Vargas.

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Today in 1950, 73 years ago: Korean War: The U.S. X Corps lands at Inchon.

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Today in 1966, 57 years ago: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.

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Today in 1974, 49 years ago: Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.

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Today in 1741, 282 years ago: George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah.

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Today in 1808, 215 years ago: Finnish War: Russians defeat the Swedes at the Battle of Oravais.

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Today in 1994, 29 years ago: The rest of the Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.

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Today in 1974, 49 years ago: Leda, a satellite of Jupiter, is discovered by Charles Thomas Kowal.

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Today in 1960, 63 years ago: Congo Crisis: Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.

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Today in 1911, 112 years ago: Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot by Dmitry Bogrov while attending a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Kiev Opera House, in the presence of Tsar Nicholas II.

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Today in 1957, 66 years ago: in Area T3b of the Nevada Atomic Test Site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 8:44 am (local time), the United States detonates its 11-kiloton Fizeau atomic bomb 150 m underground. It is the 112th of the 1132 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.

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Today in 2009, 14 years ago: in the United States, Argentine tennis player Juan Martín del Potro defeated Swiss Roger Federer in the final and became champion of the US Open, this being his first and only Grand-Slam title

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Today in 1735, 288 years ago: 80 km from the current Federal Capital, the city of Capilla del Señor was founded, being considered as the "First Historic Town".

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Today in 1930, 93 years ago: in Germany, the Nazi party gets 18% of the vote and 107 seats in the Reichstag (it becomes the second party in the country).

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