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Last Notes npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 2020, 6 years ago: COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei: Municipal health officials in Wuhan announce the first recorded death from COVID-19. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1927, 99 years ago: the film Metropolis, by Fritz Lang, is released. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1951, 75 years ago: in New York, the United Nations officially inaugurated its headquarters. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1905, 121 years ago: in Russia the strike movement intensifies, which becomes revolutionary and will culminate in the Bloody Sunday massacre by the tsarist troops. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 2005, 21 years ago: Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to succeed Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority, replacing interim president Rawhi Fattouh. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 2004, 22 years ago: The RMS Queen Mary 2, then the largest ocean liner ever built, is christened by her namesake's granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1835, 191 years ago: US President Andrew Jackson announces a celebratory dinner after having reduced the United States national debt to zero for the only time. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 2015, 11 years ago: in France, an attack on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1999, 27 years ago: in the United States begins the trial against Bill Clinton, the first to be held against a president in 130 years. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1967, 59 years ago: The Californian band The Doors releases their self-titled debut album The Doors. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1991, 35 years ago: the United Nations unanimously votes to condemn Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1990, 36 years ago: United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1904, 121 years ago: in New York (United States), Longacre Square (now Times Square) is used for the first time to celebrate the New Year. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1501, 524 years ago: The First Battle of Cannanore commences, seeing the first use of the naval line of battle. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1776, 249 years ago: In France, American politician Benjamin Franklin arrives in Versailles, near Paris, to solicit French help for American patriots against the British Empire. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 2020, 5 years ago: The World Health Organization issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1923, 102 years ago: in fascist Italy, Benito Mussolini decrees a ban on giving Croatian names, and children who received a Croatian name at baptism were given an Italian name in the civil registry. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1972, 53 years ago: in Germany, nine years after its initial broadcast, the NDR (Northern German Broadcasting) broadcasts the sketch Dinner for One for the first time on New Year's Eve. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1996, 29 years ago: in Israel, budget cuts ordered by Benjamin Netanyahu trigger the strike of 250,000 workers. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 2021, 4 years ago: in Argentina, there are more than 50,000 cases of COVID-19 for the first time. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1936, 89 years ago: in the United States, the United Auto Workers union begins its first strike. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1976, 49 years ago: In a well 331 meters underground, in the U7aj (s) area of the Nevada Atomic Test Site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 10:00 (local time) the United States detonates its atomic bomb No. 883, Rudder, 89 kt. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1993, 32 years ago: In Cairo (Egypt) the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and Israel negotiate a final agreement for Gaza and Jericho. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1978, 47 years ago: Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1990, 35 years ago: in the United States the first successful test of the system that will become the World Wide Web (Internet) is carried out. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1776, 249 years ago: American Revolutionary War: General George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1911, 114 years ago: in Berlin, a methyl alcohol poisoning causes the death of 89 people. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1913, 112 years ago: in the United States the fed (Federal Reserve System) is created. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1945, 80 years ago: the American aeronautical company Beech Aircraft Corporation flies the Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft for the first time. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1864, 161 years ago: American Civil War: Savannah, Georgia, falls to the Union's Army of the Tennessee, and General Sherman tells President Abraham Lincoln: "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah". npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1968, 57 years ago: in Cape Canaveral (USA),) lifts off the Apollo 8 spacecraft, which will circumnavigate the Moon. It was the first manned mission to reach lunar orbit. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1980, 45 years ago: in Spain, the Government approves the Statute of Autonomy of Galicia. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1945, 80 years ago: John Amery, British Fascist, is executed at the age of 33 by the British Government for treason. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1538, 487 years ago: in Rome, Pope Paul III excommunicated Henry VIII of England. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 2005, 20 years ago: Introduction of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor into USAF active service. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1939, 86 years ago: Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1545, 480 years ago: The Council of Trent begins as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1966, 59 years ago: in a well 240 meters underground, in the U3ez area of the Nevada Atomic Test Site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 9:50 (local time) the United States detonates its 1 kiloton Sidecar atomic bomb. At 13:00, the 7-kiloton New Point bomb detonates. They are the 488th and 489th of the 1131 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1900, 125 years ago: Max Planck exposes his quantum theory, the basis of modern physics. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1998, 27 years ago: the United States launches the Mars Climate Orbiter probe, which will be destroyed on arrival at Mars due to a navigation error. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1994, 31 years ago: in the context of the first Chechen war: the president of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin orders his troops to enter Chechnya. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1953, 72 years ago: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in Literature. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1993, 32 years ago: The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1996, 29 years ago: Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topless in Ontario, Canada. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1660, 365 years ago: A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1854, 171 years ago: In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 2019, 6 years ago: Start of the coronavirus pneumonia epidemic in China. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1932, 93 years ago: German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1917, 108 years ago: Finland declares its independence from the Russian Empire npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1989, 36 years ago: in the city of Montreal (Canada) there is the massacre of the École Polytechnique de Montréal. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 2001, 24 years ago: Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-108, carrying the Expedition 4 crew to the International Space Station. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1943, 82 years ago: World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1791, 234 years ago: The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1838, 187 years ago: French troops land in Mexico and take the port of Veracruz. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1991, 34 years ago: Pan Am, the leading airline in the United States declares bankruptcy and ceases operations. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1990, 35 years ago: the first elections are held in reunified Germany. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1961, 64 years ago: In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba will adopt Communism. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 2006, 19 years ago: Nintendo's Wii console launches in Japan. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1969, 56 years ago: in the context of the Vietnam War, the United States holds the draw (the first since World War II) to recruit soldiers with the aim of continuing the invasion of North Vietnam. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1948, 77 years ago: Costa Rica becomes the first country in the Americas to abolish its Armed Forces. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 2019, 6 years ago: The outbreak of coronavirus infection begins in Wuhan. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1939, 86 years ago: World War II: The Soviet Red Army crosses the Finnish border in several places, bombing Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the Winter War. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1979, 46 years ago: the successful album The Wall, by the British band Pink Floyd, is released in the United Kingdom. Later that year on December 8 it is published in the United States. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1895, 130 years ago: At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1992, 33 years ago: The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with effect from January 1, 1993. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1863, 162 years ago: American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1921, 104 years ago: Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, signs the Willis–Campbell Act into law, prohibiting doctors from prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1535, 490 years ago: in London, Henry VIII of England gets Parliament to confirm the ecclesiastical supremacy that this king attributes to himself. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1975, 50 years ago: in Spain, Juan Carlos de Borbón is proclaimed king. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1922, 103 years ago: in Italy, Parliament gives full powers to Benito Mussolini, the prime minister of the new coalition government. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1877, 148 years ago: in New York (United States), Thomas Edison makes the first sound recording with his first phonograph: the song Mary had a little lamb. It will publicly display the device a week later. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1676, 349 years ago: The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1969, 56 years ago: The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History *1918 – The Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as the national flag of the Republic of Estonia. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1992, 33 years ago: A major tornado strikes the Houston, Texas area during the afternoon. Over the next two days the largest tornado outbreak ever to occur in the US during November spawns over 100 tornadoes. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1940, 85 years ago: In the context of World War II, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia allied with the Axis Forces. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 2002, 23 years ago: The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 76,000 m3 (20 million US gal) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1928, 97 years ago: Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1939, 86 years ago: Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. All Czech universities are shut down and more than 1,200 students sent to concentration camps. Since this event, International Students' Day is celebrated in many countries, especially in the Czech Republic. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 2019, 6 years ago: in Wuhan, China, the first known case of COVID-19 disease appears. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1907, 118 years ago: Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 2012, 13 years ago: in China, Xi Jinping becomes the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, and a new seven-member Politburo Committee is created. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1889, 136 years ago: Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1889, 136 years ago: The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 2007, 18 years ago: in Madrid (Spain), a neo-Nazi soldier murders 16-year-old Carlos Palomino at the Legazpi metro station, fighting against racism and fascism. The Antifascist Coordinator of Madrid manifests every year in his memory. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1937, 88 years ago: Fascist Italy leaves the League of Nations. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1580, 445 years ago: Second Desmond Rebellion: The Siege of Smerwick ends with the Catholic garrison surrendering to the English forces under Arthur Grey. The majority of the garrison is massacred the next day. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1983, 42 years ago: Cold War: The command post exercise Able Archer 83 begins, eventually leading to the Soviet Union to place air units in East Germany and Poland on alert, for fear that NATO was preparing for war npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1943, 82 years ago: World War II: The 1st Ukrainian Front liberates Kyiv from German occupation. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1947, 78 years ago: Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut on NBC Television. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1556, 469 years ago: Second Battle of Panipat: Fighting begins between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu king at Delhi and the forces of the Muslim emperor Akbar. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1872, 153 years ago: Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1950, 75 years ago: in Vatican City, Pope Pius XII claims to have witnessed the same "miracle of the Sun" of Fatima (Portugal) but in the Vatican gardens. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1955, 70 years ago: The Vietnam War Begins npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1982, 43 years ago: in Marysville (Ohio), the Japanese company Honda inaugurates a factory. It thus becomes the first foreign auto company to produce cars in the United States. They produce the Honda Accord. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1975, 50 years ago: in the United Kingdom, the rock band Queen releases the single Bohemian Rhapsody. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1961, 64 years ago: Dropped from the air, in an atmospheric nuclear test at 4000 meters high, in Area C, on Cape Sukhoy Nos, from the atomic test site in the Nova Zembla archipelago, Arctic Ocean, north of Russia, the Soviet Union detonates the 50 megaton hydrogen atomic bomb, called the Tsar's Bomb, the most powerful in the world (4000 times more powerful than the Little Boy atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiros... npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1985, 40 years ago: Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1991, 34 years ago: in Madrid the protocol of the Antarctic Treaty is signed between 30 countries, which for 50 years protects the area from exploitation. npub1k7k6g5ax28kmgnfdacszaytdptdugsd2sasr97spjj04vzwch0jsj6rt0y On This Day In History Today in 1962, 63 years ago: By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
