Today in 1965, 59 years ago: university demonstrations began in Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid and other Spanish cities in favor of freedom of association and the suppression of the SEU.

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Today in 1908, 116 years ago: an international conference on arms reduction is taking place in London.

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Today in 2012, 12 years ago: A tornado outbreak occurs over a large section of the Southern United States and into the Ohio Valley region, resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities.

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Today in 2004, 20 years ago: the first evidence that alterations in brain insulin are related to Alzheimer's disease was published.

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Today in 1998, 26 years ago: Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.

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Today in 2005, 19 years ago: in Uruguay, Tabaré Vázquez assumes the presidency of the Republic for the first time, being the first left-wing government in the country's history.

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Today in 1987, 37 years ago: a UN expert meeting in New York confirms that a hole is opening in the ozone layer above Antarctica.

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Today in 1932, 92 years ago: in the United States, the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped. A German-born carpenter named Bruno Hauptmann will be sentenced to death, but later his innocence will be discovered.

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Today in 1633, 391 years ago: Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.

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Today in 1941, 83 years ago: World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.

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Today in 1628, 396 years ago: Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.

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Today in 2003, 21 years ago: Iraq meets the demands of the UN and begins to destroy its Al Samud 2 missiles.

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Today in 1942, 82 years ago: World War II: Japanese forces land on Java, the main island of the Dutch East Indies, at Merak and Banten Bay (Banten), Eretan Wetan (Indramayu) and Kragan (Rembang).

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Today in 1935, 89 years ago: attempted coup d 'état in Greece under the leadership of former president of the Council, Eleftherios Venizelos.

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Today in 1912, 112 years ago: Albert Berry jumps out of an airplane to test the first parachute.

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Today in 1996, 28 years ago: in Arequipa (Peru), Faucett Peru Flight 251 crashes a few minutes before landing due to an impact with the ground without loss of control, resulting in one of the worst commercial aviation accidents in the country.

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Today in 2008, 16 years ago: Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.

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Today in 1997, 27 years ago: in Roslin (Scotland), a group of scientists announce that an adult sheep Dolly has been successfully cloned.

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Today in 1916, 108 years ago: in France - within the framework of the First World War - the Battle of Verdun begins.

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Today in 1983, 41 years ago: in Seattle (Washington) thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre considered the mass murder caused by the largest robbery in the history of the country.

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