Today in 1817, 207 years ago: in San Juan de los Lagos (Mexico), Spanish soldiers kill the young Luis Moreno (15) in front of his mother, Rita Pérez de Moreno (the wife of the caudillo Pedro Moreno).
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Today in 1500, 524 years ago: The fleet of Pedro Álvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494.
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Today in 1959, 65 years ago: Barbie, the most famous doll in the world, goes on sale.
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Today in 1801, 223 years ago: in Alexandria (Egypt), the British destroy the French expedition led by Napoleon.
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Today in 2004, 20 years ago: Abbas, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF), dies of natural causes in an American prison (in Iraq).
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Today in 1799, 225 years ago: in Paris (France), a fire -apparently intentional- destroys the Odeon Theatre.
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Today in 1910, 114 years ago: at the Second International Conference of Socialist Women meeting in Copenhagen, the demand for universal suffrage for all women was reiterated and, at the proposal of Clara Zetkin, March 8 was proclaimed as International Women's Day.
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Today in 1963, 61 years ago: The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état.
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Today in 1910, 114 years ago: in Spain, King Alfonso XIII authorized Spanish women to pursue higher education.
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Today in 1937, 87 years ago: In the United Kingdom, former King Edward VIII is granted the title of Duke of Windsor.
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Today in 2021, 3 years ago: International Women's Day marches in Mexico become violent with 62 police officers and 19 civilians injured in Mexico City alone.
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Today in 1917, 107 years ago: The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
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Today in 1998, 26 years ago: on the occasion of International Working Women's Day, coinciding this year with the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, women from almost all countries take to the streets in massive demonstrations.
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Today in 1928, 96 years ago: in Italy, Benito Mussolini sends a letter to Parliament, in which he denies the sovereignty of the Chamber.
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Today in 1958, 66 years ago: the Argentine Catholic University (UCA) was founded in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
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Today in 1967, 57 years ago: The Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara (MPRS), Indonesia's provisional parliament, revoked Sukarno's mandate as President of Indonesia.
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Today in 1989, 35 years ago: Iran breaks diplomatic relations with Britain because of Salman Rushdie's novel Satanic Verses.
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Today in 1882, 142 years ago: in Havana, the American company Edison Telephone Exchange inaugurates the first telephone service in Cuba.
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Today in 1836, 188 years ago: Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo: After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
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Today in 1986, 38 years ago: last sighting of Halley's Comet in the vicinity of the Earth's orbit; it is estimated that the next visit will be in the year 2061.
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