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Today in 1976, 49 years ago: The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, comes into force.

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Today in 1992, 33 years ago: CommutAir Flight 4821 crashes on approach to Adirondack Regional Airport, in Saranac Lake, New York, killing two people.

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Today in 1749, 276 years ago: Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.

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Today in 1749, 276 years ago: The first issue of Berlingske, Denmark's oldest continually operating newspaper, is published.

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Today in 1987, 38 years ago: Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Today in 2024, 1 year ago: Panam Sports withdraws the venue of the XX Pan American Games to the city of Barranquilla, Colombia.

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Today in 1990, 35 years ago: United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces.

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Today in 1913, 112 years ago: An Atlantic coast storm sets the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading (955.0 mb (28.20 inHg)) for a non-tropical system in the continental United States.

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Today in 1934, 91 years ago: in Osek (Northern Bohemia) a mining catastrophe leaves 126 dead.

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Today in 1749, 276 years ago: in Denmark, the newspaper Berlingske Tidende, dean of the universal daily press, takes to the streets.

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Today in 2020, 5 years ago: Iranian General Qasem Soleimani is killed by an American airstrike near Baghdad International Airport, igniting global concerns of a potential armed conflict.

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Today in 1981, 44 years ago: the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters is created in Paris, whose founding members include the Spaniards Pedro Laín Entralgo, Federico Sopeña and Federico Mayor Zaragoza.

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Today in 1971, 54 years ago: 66 people die in Glasgow when a railing of the Celtic stadium is surrendered due to pressure from spectators.

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Today in 1945, 80 years ago: the German Ardennes offensive fails in the Belgian city of Bastogne.

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Today in 1994, 31 years ago: in the Russian city of Irkutsk, an Aeroflot Tupolev TU-154 plane crashes after taking to the ground, killing 125 people.

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Today in 1959, 66 years ago: Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.

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Today in 1954, 71 years ago: the regular broadcasts of Rai 1 began as the only channel of Rai.

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Today in 1976, 49 years ago: at the UN (New York) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.

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Today in 1941, 84 years ago: in Mexico City, the priest Marcial Maciel (1920-2008) founded the Legion of Christ. Later it will be discovered that from this time he began to sexually abuse children and young people in his schools.​

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Today in 1833, 192 years ago: Captain James Onslow, in the Clio, reasserts British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.

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Today in 1961, 64 years ago: A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.

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Today in 2002, 23 years ago: in the Red Sea, Israeli commandos seize a ship chartered by the PA with 50 tons of weapons and explosives from Iran.

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Today in 2020, 5 years ago: airstrike on Baghdad International Airport.

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Today in 1961, 64 years ago: The SL-1 nuclear reactor, near Idaho Falls, Idaho, is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.

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Today in 1861, 164 years ago: in the context of the American Civil War, Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.

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Marvel Rivals team issue a statement on recent bans for Steam Deck and macOS players gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/marv…

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Als Antwort auf Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social Neat. Out of curiosity, what anticheat are they using? I don't remember off the top of my head
Als Antwort auf MudMan

@MudMan you may check on our page: gamingonlinux.com/anticheat/
Als Antwort auf Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I’m pretty glad that they are continuing to let people play this game outside of the Windows OS without any worries!


Today in 2016, 9 years ago: Following the execution in Saudi Arabia of human rights activist and Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, the Government of Iran breaks off its diplomatic relations with pro-American Arab King Salman bin Abdulaziz.

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Today in 1904, 121 years ago: In Tres Arroyos, Argentina, the Union Dependentes de Comercio (whose name would change from 1989 to Sindicato Empleados de Comercio de Tres Arroyos) and its Public Library "Vicente P. Cacuri" were founded.“The oldest of the guilds.” Archived from the original on January 4, 2017. Accessed January 3, 2017.

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Als Antwort auf Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

The Bethesda ones are basically unplayable without mods. How's the rest? Until You Fall was great.


Today in 1980, 45 years ago: in Portugal, Francisco de Sá Carneiro is elected head of government.

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Today in 1834, 191 years ago: in Mexico City, the government imprisons Stephen F. Austin.

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Today in 1933, 92 years ago: Minnie D. Craig becomes the first woman elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first woman to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.

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Medal of Honor: Allied Assault open source remake new Beta gets lots of fixes gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/meda…

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Today in 1961, 64 years ago: Cold War: After a series of economic retaliations against one another, the United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba.

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Today in 1871, 154 years ago: Henry W. Bradley patents oleomargarine.

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Today in 2004, 21 years ago: in the Red Sea a Boeing 737 plane of the Egyptian company Flash Airlines crashes, killing its 148 passengers.

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Der Chaos Commuciation Congress in Hamburg vereint Technik und Aktivismus. Dieses Jahr ging es vor allem um eins: Solidarität.


Slavic fantasy story-driven mystery adventure The End of the Sun releases January 29 gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/slav…

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Today in 1885, 140 years ago: Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop.

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