Today in 1833, 191 years ago: Carlist Wars: battle of Larremiar (Navarre), in which Espoz and Mina and Zumalacárregui face each other.

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Today in 2003, 21 years ago: Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.

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Today in 1881, 143 years ago: in Scotland (United Kingdom), Andrew Watson becomes the first black Scottish captain of his country's national football team.

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Today in 1967, 57 years ago: in the United Kingdom the album The Velvet Underground and Nico is released, the first by the band Velvet Underground.

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Today in 1940, 84 years ago: The most destructive train accident in Finnish history kills 39 and injures 69 people in Turenki, Janakkala.

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Today in 1920, 104 years ago: The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.

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Today in 1938, 86 years ago: Germany annexes Austria, the so-called Anschluss planned by the Nazis.

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Today in 2006, 18 years ago: legislative and municipal elections are held in El Salvador.​

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Today in 1918, 106 years ago: Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713.

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Today in 2019, 5 years ago: In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.

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Today in 2009, 15 years ago: Financier Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history.

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Today in 1813, 211 years ago: in Argentina, the Constituent General Assembly officially approved the country's national coat of arms.

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Today in 1595, 429 years ago: in Tolima (Colombia) the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts, leaving a balance of 636 victims.

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Today in 1939, 85 years ago: Finland capitulates to the Soviet Union.

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Today in 1993, 31 years ago: Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more.

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Today in 2003, 21 years ago: The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

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Today in 2004, 20 years ago: The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history.

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Today in 1868, 156 years ago: in the city of Sydney (Australia), a certain Henry James O'Farrell tries to assassinate Prince Alfred of Edinburgh. (He will be hanged a month later.)

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Today in 1535, 489 years ago: Captain Francisco Pacheco founded the city of Puerto Viejo, the first to be erected on the coast of Ecuador

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Today in 1933, 91 years ago: Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the American nation for the first time as president.

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