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Today in 1994, 31 years ago: the Court of Justice of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was inaugurated in Geneva.

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Today in 1642, 383 years ago: English Civil War: King Charles I, accompanied by 400 soldiers, attempts to arrest five members of Parliament for treason, only to discover the men had been tipped off and fled.

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Today in 1798, 227 years ago: Constantine Hangerli arrives in Bucharest, Wallachia, as its new Prince, invested by the Ottoman Empire.

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Today in 1845, 180 years ago: in Monterrey (Mexico) General Mariano Arista takes up arms to support the movement of repudiation for the return to power of Antonio López de Santa Anna.

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Today in 1857, 168 years ago: the railway route between Mataró and Arenys de Mar was inaugurated in Barcelona.

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Today in 1933, 92 years ago: on the French coast, a fire destroys the French ocean liner Atlantic.

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Today in 1918, 107 years ago: Finland officially becomes independent from the Russian Empire

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Today in 1954, 71 years ago: in the United States, Elvis Presley recorded his first album.

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Today in 1998, 27 years ago: A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.

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Als Antwort auf On This Day In History

That was a wild few days in Saranac Lake, NY. Made a lot of money that spring and summer clearing fallen trees off people's property


Today in 1957, 68 years ago: the Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.

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Today in 2004, 21 years ago: Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history.

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Today in 1924, 101 years ago: in the civil pantheon of Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, he was shot after Felipe Carrillo Puerto, socialist governor of Yucatán, took public power from him, along with his brothers: Edesio, Benjamín and Wilfrido and 9 other collaborators.

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Today in 2002, 23 years ago: Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter Karine A in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.

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Today in 1687, 338 years ago: in Spain, Carlos II created the General Superintendence of Finance, putting the Marquis de los Vélez in charge.

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Today in 2018, 7 years ago: For the first time in history, all five major storm surge gates in the Netherlands are closed simultaneously in the wake of a storm.

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Today in 1870, 155 years ago: in New York, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.

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Today in 1932, 93 years ago: in Honduras martial law is declared to stop the revolt of banana workers, fired by the United Fruit company.

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Today in 1944, 81 years ago: World War II: US flying ace Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.

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Today in 1979, 46 years ago: the United States withdraws nuclear weapons stored in Spain.

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Today in 2016, 9 years ago: In response to the execution of Nimr al-Nimr, Iran ends its diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.

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Today in 1913, 112 years ago: First Balkan War: Greece completes its capture of the eastern Aegean island of Chios, as the last Ottoman forces on the island surrender.

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Today in 1777, 248 years ago: at the Battle of Princeton (United States) the American general George Washington defeats the British general Charles Cornwallis.

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Today in 1496, 529 years ago: in Italy, Leonardo da Vinci tests his flying machine for the first time.

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Today in 1741, 284 years ago: the city of Tarata was founded in the Royal Audience of Charcas (today Bolivia), Viceroyalty of Peru.

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Today in 2015, 10 years ago: in the town of Baga, in the far northeast of Nigeria, militants of the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram begin the Baga massacre (until January 7): they will kill more than 2,000 men, women and children.

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Today in 1987, 38 years ago: Varig Flight 797 crashes near Akouré in the Ivory Coast, resulting in 50 deaths.

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Today in 1946, 79 years ago: Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf suffers a concussion during a freak racing accident; he dies from the injury the following day. The annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.

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Today in 1997, 28 years ago: the People's Republic of China announces that it will spend 27.7 billion dollars to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.

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Today in 2006, 19 years ago: the Internet reaches 1.1 billion users (one in seven people on the planet has access to the network).

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Today in 1848, 177 years ago: in Liberia, Joseph Jenkins Roberts is appointed Prime Minister.

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Today in 1999, 26 years ago: the United States launches the Mars Polar Lander, with which contact was lost shortly before landing.

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Als Antwort auf On This Day In History

At JPL, we called it “a sporty landing.” The crash was a result of the contractor failing to do adequate systems testing that would have caught a design defect. The mechanical forces generated by the fast landing leg deployment caused a spurious signal by the ground contact sensor. This caused the flight computer to turn off the engine — many meters too high. The spacecraft dropped like a rock.



Today in 1990, 35 years ago: in Panama, President Manuel Noriega surrenders to American soldiers and is transferred to the United States.

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Today in 1999, 26 years ago: The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.

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Today in 1870, 155 years ago: Construction work begins on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, United States.

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Today in 1993, 32 years ago: George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the START II nuclear disarmament agreement, to reduce nuclear arsenals.

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*1815 – Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.

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Valve set Palworld back as Steam Deck Playable but with multiple listed problems gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/valv…

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