Today in 1832, 192 years ago: in Spain, King Ferdinand VII publicly declares that the decree by which he had repealed the Pragmatic Sanction was worthless.
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Today in 1857, 167 years ago: Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of the Province of Canada.
Today in 1757, 267 years ago: Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.
Today in 1963, 61 years ago: The Central African Federation officially collapses, subsequently becoming Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
Today in 1986, 38 years ago: at the Dupont Plaza hotel, in San Juan (Puerto Rico), a deliberate fire kills 97 people.
Today in 1790, 234 years ago: Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.
Today in 1584, 440 years ago: Spain, Philip II signs with the Catholic League, led by Henry of Guise, the Treaty of Joinville, by which they undertake to expel the Protestants.
Today in 1983, 41 years ago: The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
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Today in 1874, 150 years ago: in Spain a provisional government was constituted under the direction of Antonio Cánovas del Castillo after the coup of the soldier Arsenio Martínez Campos and the restoration of the monarchy was decreed, after the accession of the captain general of Castilla la Nueva, Primo de Rivera.
Today in 1955, 69 years ago: General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
Today in 2019, 5 years ago: in Zacatecas (Mexico) there is a fight in the Cereso de Cieneguillas that leaves 16 dead and 5 injured.
Today in 1784, 240 years ago: Charles III of Spain establishes the galley penalty to reinforce the fight against pirates.
Today in 1961, 63 years ago: in the Cuban village of Palmarito (province of Camagüey), the counterrevolutionary organization Movimiento de Recuperación Revolucionaria (MRR) -within the framework of the terrorist attacks organized by the US CIA - assassinates the militiaman Elías Saavedra Flores.
Today in 1851, 173 years ago: in the English Channel the first submarine cable between the cities of Dover (England) and Calais (France) is inaugurated.
Today in 1929, 95 years ago: in Buenos Aires (Argentina), Raquel Líberman (1900-1935), Russian woman victim of trafficking, denounces the Jewish-Polish organization Tsvi Migdal and manages to dismantle it.
Today in 1501, 523 years ago: The First Battle of Cannanore commences, seeing the first use of the naval line of battle.
Today in 2018, 6 years ago: Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-story building collapses in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.
Today in 1660, 364 years ago: James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.
Today in 1944, 80 years ago: World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major Wehrmacht offensive on the Western Front, begins.
Today in 1939, 85 years ago: in Vienna there is an extraordinary concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the Austrian Clemens Krauss, which would mark the creation of the Vienna New Year's Concert from 1941.
Today in 1431, 593 years ago: in Granada, Yusuf IV is proclaimed sultan, after a popular uprising that overthrew Muhammad IX.
Today in 1999, 25 years ago: The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
Today in 1991, 33 years ago: All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date, five days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
Today in 1972, 52 years ago: a Douglas DC-7 plane, with help for Nicaragua, crashes into the sea after taking off from San Juan (Puerto Rico). All passengers are killed, including Puerto Rican baseball player Roberto Clemente.
Today in 2010, 14 years ago: Tornadoes touch down in midwestern and southern United States, including Washington County, Arkansas; Greater St. Louis, Sunset Hills, Missouri, Illinois, and Oklahoma, with a few tornadoes in the early hours. A total of 36 tornadoes touched down, resulting in the deaths of nine people and $113 million in damages.
Today in 1942, 82 years ago: USS Essex, first aircraft carrier of a 24-ship class, is commissioned.
Today in 1993, 31 years ago: in New Orleans (United States) the disappearance of Ylenia Carrisi (23), the eldest daughter of the Italian singer Al Bano and the American actress Romina Power, is known. She will never be heard from again. Fifteen days earlier, the guardian of the municipal aquarium saw a woman with the same characteristics as Ylenia throw herself into the Mississippi River.
Today in 1944, 80 years ago: in the context of World War II, Hungary declares war on Germany.
Today in 1992, 32 years ago: Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.
Today in 1670, 354 years ago: The expedition of John Narborough leaves Corral Bay, having surveyed the coast and lost four hostages to the Spanish.
Today in 2023, 1 year ago: Queen Margaret II of Denmark announces her abdication to the Danish throne, which would occur until January 14, 2024.
Today in 1970, 54 years ago: the commission of the Cartagena Agreement established a common policy towards Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), expressed in decision No. 24.
Today in 1999, 25 years ago: the United States hands over the administration of the Panama Canal to the Republic of Panama.