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5 years ago today, the album Circles by the rapper, singer and producer Mac Miller was released. (feddit.nl)
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80 years ago today, after the beginning of the Red Army's Vistula–Oder Offensive, Soviet troops entered the Warsaw ruins, and liberated the suburbs from German occupation. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today, Australian troops advanced along the northern part of Bougainville Island (in present-day Papua New Guinea) and began fighting Japanese forces in the Battle of Tsimba Ridge. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today, USS Nautilus' first Commanding Officer, Commander Eugene P. Wilkinson, ordered all lines cast off and signaled the memorable and historic message, "Underway on nuclear power." (en.wikipedia.org)
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100 years ago today, Duane Hanson, an American artist and sculptor, was born in Minnesota. (en.wikipedia.org)
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420 years ago today, the first edition of "El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha" (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes was published in Madrid. (en.wikipedia.org)
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245 years ago today, the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, a naval battle, took place off the southern coast of Portugal during the American Revolutionary War. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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170 years ago today, Eleanor Marx, the English-born youngest daughter of Karl Marx, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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55 years ago today, Dilma Rousseff, a member of the Brazilian guerrilla movement against the military government, was arrested. In 2011 she became the first woman to be president of Brazil. (files.catbox.moe)
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She was labelled the “Joan of Arc” of the movement when she was arrested in 1970

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35 years ago today, the album Reading, Writing and Arithmetic by the Pop Rock band The Sundays was released. (feddit.nl)
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175 years ago today, Sofya Kovalevskaya, a Russian mathematician, was born. She made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. (en.wikipedia.org)
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125 years ago today, Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca, based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. (en.wikipedia.org)
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150 years ago today, Albert Schweitzer, a German and French polymath from Alsace, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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53 years ago today, Margrethe II becomes queen of Denmark, ruling in her own right until she announced her abdication (also on this day) in 2024. (files.catbox.moe)
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(14th January 1972)

She was the first regnant queen of Denmark since Margrethe 1 in 1375–1412

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30 years ago today, Natalia Dyer, an American actress, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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185 years ago today, en route from New York City to Boston, the casing around the steamship Lexington's smokestack caught fire, igniting nearly 150 bales of cotton. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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25 years ago today, Steve Ballmer replaced Bill Gates as the chief executive officer of Microsoft. (en.wikipedia.org)
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90 years ago today, a referendum on territorial status was held in the Territory of the Saar Basin. Over 90% of voters opted for reunification with Germany. (en.wikipedia.org)
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35 years ago today, a seven-day pogrom broke out against the Armenian civilian population in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, during which Armenians were beaten, murdered, and expelled from the city. (en.wikipedia.org)
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25 years ago today, in a lawsuit brought up by Tanja Kreil, the European Court of Justice issued a ruling allowing women to serve in the armed forces of Germany in more roles than previously allowed. (eur-lex.europa.eu)
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140 years ago today, Alice Paul, an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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545 years ago today, Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, was born. She was Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1507 to 1515 and again from 1519 until her death in 1530. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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550 years ago today, Stephen III of Moldavia defeated the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui. (en.wikipedia.org)
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20 years ago today, Mahmoud Abbas was elected to serve as President of the Palestinian National Authority. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, the Great Storm spawned the first of 45 tornadoes over a three-day period in the Southeastern United States. (en.wikipedia.org)
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