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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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210 years ago today, the Battle of New Orleans was fought between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham and the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson. (en.wikipedia.org)
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90 years ago today, Elvis Presley, an American singer and actor, was born. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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100 years ago today, Helmuth Hübener was born. He was executed at age 17 by beheading for his opposition to the Nazi regime. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today, the curtain at the Metropolitan Opera in New York rose to reveal Marian Anderson, the first African American to perform with the Met. (en.wikipedia.org)
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45 years ago today, Zoe Salmon, a television presenter from Northern Ireland, was born. She hosted the children's television programme Blue Peter from 23 December 2004 to 25 June 2008. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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5 years ago today, after 253 days without an operational government, a second round of investiture votes produced Spain's first coalition government since the Second Republic. (en.wikipedia.org)
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10 years ago today, in Paris, France, the employees of the French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo were targeted in a terrorist shooting attack by two French-born Algerian Muslim brothers. (en.wikipedia.org)
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20 years ago today, Oury Jalloh, an asylum seeker, died in a fire in a police cell in Dessau, Germany. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, Wheel of Fortune, one of the the longest-running syndicated game shows in American television, premiered on NBC. (en.wikipedia.org)
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115 years ago today, Kid Chocolate, a Cuban boxer, was born. He enjoyed great success both in the boxing ring and outside it during the 1930s. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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300 years ago today, J. S. Bach led the first performance of Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen, a chorale cantata for Epiphany. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today, Rowan Atkinson, an English actor, comedian and writer, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today, Bradley Cooper, an American actor and filmmaker, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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40 years ago today, Operation Moses ended. It was the covert evacuation of Ethiopian Jews from Sudan during a civil war that caused a famine in 1984. (en.wikipedia.org)
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65 years ago today, Albert Camus, a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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40 years ago today, Brian Horrocks, a British Army officer, died. He is chiefly remembered as the commander of XXX Corps in Operation Market Garden and other operations during the Second World War. (en.wikipedia.org)
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1,775 years ago today, Decius ordered all people in the Roman Empire (except Jews) to perform a sacrifice to the Roman gods, resulting in widespread persecution of Christians. (en.wikipedia.org)
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100 years ago today, Mussolini made a truculent speech before the Chamber in which he took responsibility for squadristi violence (though he did not mention the assassination of Giacomo Matteotti). (en.wikipedia.org)
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160 years ago today, Brazilian and Colorado Party forces captured the city of Paysandú from its Uruguayan defenders. (en.wikipedia.org)
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75 years ago today, Emil Jannings, a Swiss-born German actor, died. He was popular in Hollywood films in the 1920s and the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actor. (en.wikipedia.org)
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45 years ago today, Elin Nordegren, the Swedish-born ex-wife of professional golfer Tiger Woods, was born. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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300 years ago today, J. S. Bach led the first performance of his chorale cantata Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, which features trumpet fanfares at the start and end. (en.wikipedia.org)
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65 years ago today, Val Kilmer, an American actor, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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