Today in 1933, 91 years ago: Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
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Today in 1975, 49 years ago: For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
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Today in 1665, 359 years ago: The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's longest-running scientific journal.
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Today in 1946, 78 years ago: Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
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Today in 1770, 254 years ago: in Boston (Massachusetts), British soldiers contain a riot causing the death of five civilians (Boston massacre). This fact is considered the beginning of the struggle for independence from the United States.
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Today in 1824, 200 years ago: First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
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Today in 1665, 359 years ago: English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
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Today in 1865, 159 years ago: The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
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Today in 1869, 155 years ago: in the United States, Ulysses S. Grant assumes the presidency.
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Today in 1970, 54 years ago: French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
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Today in 1986, 38 years ago: the American rock group Metallica releases the album Master of Puppets.
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Today in 2017, 7 years ago: The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild game launches for Wii U and Nintendo Switch.
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Today in 1547, 477 years ago: in Zaragoza (Spain) the works of the last extension of the temple of La Seo begin.
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Today in 1885, 139 years ago: AT&T (American Telephone & Telegraph Company) is created in New York.
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Today in 1994, 30 years ago: the Holy See and Jordan establish diplomatic relations.
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Today in 2004, 20 years ago: War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq, killing 170 and wounding over 500.
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Today in 1973, 51 years ago: in Sudan, a Palestinian commando executed three Arab diplomats, kidnapped the day before.
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Today in 1861, 163 years ago: The United States creates Nevada and Dakota.
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Today in 1815, 209 years ago: Signing of the Kandyan Convention treaty by British invaders and the leaders of the Kingdom of Kandy.
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Today in 2006, 18 years ago: a study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reveals that each year Antarctica loses, approximately, a volume of 152 km³ (as a cube of 5336 m side) of ice since 2002.
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