Today in 1983, 41 years ago: In Nigeria, a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.
Today in 2020, 4 years ago: The World Health Organization issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine.
Today in 1981, 43 years ago: A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.
Today in 2001, 23 years ago: in the first 12 countries of the euro zone, the old national currencies go out of circulation.
Today in 1878, 146 years ago: Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, files for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine. He was granted the patent in 1879.
Today in 1997, 27 years ago: in Los Angeles (United States), the Indian computer scientist Sabir Bhatia (29) sells his Hotmail website to the Microsoft company for 400 million US dollars.
Today in 2001, 23 years ago: Microsoft ends support for all Windows prior to Windows 98. That is, Windows 95, Windows 3.x, Windows 2.0, Windows 1.0, Windows NT 3.5,3.51, and Windows NT 3.1
Today in 1994, 30 years ago: This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively.
Today in 2019, 5 years ago: The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan. This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today in 1999, 25 years ago: The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.
Today in 1862, 162 years ago: American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee between the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General Braxton Bragg and the Union Army of the Cumberland under General William S. Rosecrans.
Today in 1730, 294 years ago: Japan records an earthquake that leaves 200,000 dead. Three months ago there had been an earthquake with 137,000 victims. (See Pre-20th Century Earthquakes.)
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Today in 2004, 20 years ago: The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 ft).
Today in 1813, 211 years ago: in Geneva, after the Napoleonic troops were expelled from Switzerland, a provisional government was established, an event that is celebrated every year.
Today in 1844, 180 years ago: The Philippines skipped this date in order to align the country with the rest of Asia, as the trading interest switched to China, Dutch East Indies and neighboring territories after Mexico gained independence from Spain on 27 September 1821. In the islands, Monday, 30 December 1844 was immediately followed by Wednesday, 1 January 1845.
(yes, yes, this was before timezones, but you get my idea)
Today in 1704, 320 years ago: on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands) the Teide volcano erupts.
Today in 1978, 46 years ago: in Colombia, the 19 de Abril Movement steals more than 5,000 weapons from a military garrison known as Cantón Norte.
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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Traditionelles Weihnachtssingen am 5. Januar 2025
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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.
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