Today in 1914, 109 years ago: World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.

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Today in 1769, 254 years ago: in the United States, the Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolá discovered the Gulf of San Francisco.

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9 years ago today in 2014: Brittany Maynard, a young woman who was diagnosed with a brain tumor, dies in Oregon. His death was an assisted suicide, which is why he came to the attention of media around the world.​​​

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Today in 1935, 88 years ago: paper money is introduced in China instead of silver coins.

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Today in 1938, 85 years ago: in the United States, Orson Welles causes panic in several cities of the country by reading The War of the Worlds (by H. G. Wells) on the radio.

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Today in 1985, 38 years ago: in the American city of Charlotte (North Carolina), the guru Osho (Bhagwan Sri Rashnísh, 1931-1990), passing through the state of Oregon, is arrested when he planned to leave the United States with 10 million dollars in jewelry. A year earlier, his sect -which he led in recent years- perpetrated a bioterrorist attack in Oregon.

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Today in 1868, 155 years ago: in Cuba, brothers Antonio and José Maceo join the armies of the Liberation Army.

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Today in 1980, 43 years ago: As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.

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Today in 1681, 342 years ago: in London (England) a woman is flogged in public for the crime of getting involved in politics.

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Today in 1984, 39 years ago: The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. The bomb kills five people and wounds 31.

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Today in 1790, 233 years ago: A severe earthquake in northern Algeria causes severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand.

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Today in 1919, 104 years ago: in the Netherlands the company KLM is founded, the oldest airline still in operation.

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Today in 1826, 197 years ago: The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.

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Today in 2008, 15 years ago: the International Trade Union Confederation begins to commemorate the World Day for Decent Work on 7 October

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Today in 1810, 213 years ago: A large fire destroys a third of all the buildings in the town of Raahe in the Grand Duchy of Finland.

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Today in 1948, 75 years ago: a Category 3 hurricane makes landfall in Cuba. With a small diameter, it crosses the south of the province of Pinar del Río, and leaves for Havana.

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Today in 1936, 87 years ago: The Jarrow March sets off for London.

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Today in 1793, 230 years ago: on the banks of the Paraná River, at the crossroads of the Camino Real that forked to the northwest (to Córdoba, Bolivia and Peru), and to the north (to the Litoral), the chapel of Nuestra Señora del Rosario is inaugurated. The farmhouse built around it was declared a "villa" in 1823, and a "city" in 1853.

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Today in 1990, 33 years ago: After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

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Today in 1962, 61 years ago: while looking for a place for a European observatory, Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Sweden sign the ESO convention, which would mark the foundation of the European Southern Observatory.

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