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30 years ago today MS Estonia sank as the ship was crossing the Baltic Sea, en route from Tallinn, Estonia, to Stockholm, Sweden. (en.wikipedia.org)
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15 years ago today Guillermo David Endara Galimany, a Panamanian politician who served as the president of Panama from 1989 to 1994, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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125 years ago today Giovanni Segantini, an Italian painter known for his large pastoral landscapes of the Alps, died. (en.wikipedia.org)
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40 years ago today Melody Thornton, Pop singer from Phoenix and former member of The Pussycat Dolls, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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40 years ago today Avril Ramona Lavigne, a Canadian singer and songwriter, was born. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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125 years ago today Selma "Selli" Engler, a leading activist of the lesbian movement in Berlin from about 1924 to 1931, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Selli Engler was a pioneer of the lesbian movement. She ran a ladies' club in Berlin in the 1920s and published texts in lesbian magazines. When the Nazis came to power, she wrote a play for Adolf Hitler.

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100 years ago today Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell, an American jazz pianist and composer, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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45 years ago today the Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad-Club (ADFC) (German Cyclist’s Association), a registered cycling association and club for cyclists in Germany, was founded. (en.wikipedia.org)
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55 years ago today the album Abbey Road by the Pop Rock band The Beatles from the United Kingdom was released. (i.ibb.co)
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175 years ago today the first Jewish religious services in San Francisco happened. (i.ibb.co)
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100 years ago today the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child was adopted by the League of Nations. (www.un-documents.net)
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2,070 years ago today Julius Caesar dedicated the Temple of Venus Genetrix in Rome to Venus, the mythical ancestor of his family. (en.wikipedia.org)
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175 years ago today Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, a Russian and Soviet experimental neurologist and physiologist known for his discovery of classical conditioning through his experiments with dogs, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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67 years ago today Troops With Bayonets Had To Escort Black Teens To School. (patch.com)
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80 years ago today the Battle of Arnhem ended. (en.wikipedia.org)
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1,180 years ago today a Viking fleet arrived near Seville, then part of the Emirate of Córdoba, and began a raid of the city that was eventually repelled by Muslim defenders. (en.wikipedia.org)
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50 years ago today the German Cancer Aid was founded by Mildred Scheel during the term of her husband, Walter Scheel, as federal president of Germany. (en.wikipedia.org)
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10 years ago today the Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit. (en.wikipedia.org)
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101 years ago today Fats Navarro, an American jazz trumpet player and a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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379 years ago today Royalists commanded by King Charles I suffered a significant defeat at the Battle of Rowton Heath in the English Civil War. (en.wikipedia.org)
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91 years ago today Ian Dawson Tyson, a Canadian singer-songwriter, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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