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30 years ago today Sleepy Boris 'snubbed' Irish leader: A meeting between two international statesmen in Ireland had to be cancelled - because one of them overslept. (news.bbc.co.uk)
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60 years ago today Trey Anastasio, an American guitarist, composer, and singer-songwriter best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Phish, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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70 years ago today USS Nautilus — world’s first nuclear submarine — is commissioned. (www.history.com)
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885 years ago today a violent earthquake struck the Caucasus near Ganja, killing up to an estimated 300,000 people. (en.wikipedia.org)
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100 years ago today Truman Garcia Capote, an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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80 years ago today Anne Patricia Briggs, an English folk singer, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)
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https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/anne-briggs

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300 years ago today J. S. Bach led the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130, based on Paul Eber's hymn in twelve stanzas, for the feast of archangel Michael. (en.wikipedia.org)
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150 years ago today high school students from Braunschweig played the first soccer match in Germany. (en.wikipedia.org)
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High school students from Braunschweig played the first soccer match in Germany on September 29, 1874. Their Latin teacher had encouraged them to take part: He wanted less military drill like in gymnastics and more team sports in the fresh air.

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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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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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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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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 Avril Ramona Lavigne, a Canadian singer and songwriter, was born. (upload.wikimedia.org)
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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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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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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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80 years ago today the Battle of Arnhem ended. (en.wikipedia.org)
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175 years ago today the first Jewish religious services in San Francisco happened. (i.ibb.co)
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1st_Jewish_religious_services_in_SF_plaque,_735_Montgomery_St.JPG

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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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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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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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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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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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