Today in 1903, 120 years ago: in Porto Alegre (Brazil) the Grêmio de Football Portoalegrense is founded.

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Today in 1945, 78 years ago: A hurricane strikes southern Florida and the Bahamas, destroying 366 airplanes and 25 blimps at Naval Air Station Richmond.

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Today in 1946, 77 years ago: Bulgaria becomes a People's Republic.

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Today in 1862, 161 years ago: American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia (present-day Harpers Ferry, West Virginia).

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Today in 1944, 79 years ago: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy.

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Today in 1959, 64 years ago: Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.

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Today in 2004, 19 years ago: National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.

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Today in 1943, 80 years ago: in Italy, Benito Mussolini announces the creation of the Republican Fascist Party.

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Today in 1986, 37 years ago: in Chile, the album Pateando Piedras, by Los Prisioneros, goes on sale.

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Today in 1813, 210 years ago: Followers of the Eight Trigram Sect loyal to Lin Qing attack the Forbidden City in a failed attempt to oust the Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

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Today in 1935, 88 years ago: in Germany, the Nuremberg laws deprive Jews of German citizenship.

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Today in 1873, 150 years ago: Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.

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Today in 1975, 48 years ago: in Santiago de Chile, the first section of Line 1 of the Santiago Metro was inaugurated.

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Today in 1789, 234 years ago: The United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.

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Today in 1794, 229 years ago: French Revolutionary Wars: Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) sees his first combat at the Battle of Boxtel during the Flanders Campaign.

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Today in 1918, 105 years ago: World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front.

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Today in 2020, 3 years ago: Signing of the Bahrain–Israel normalization agreement occurs in Washington, D.C., normalizing relations between Israel and two Arab nations, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

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Today in 1835, 188 years ago: HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.

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Today in 1954, 69 years ago: Marilyn Monroe's iconic skirt scene is shot during filming for The Seven Year Itch.

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Today in 1976, 47 years ago: the Soviet Union launches the Soyuz 22 spacecraft.

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