Anniversaries: X years ago today

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English-speaking community for anniversaries. This also includes personal events!

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Mandatory title format: "X years ago today […]", where of course X is replaced by the number of years.
X ≥ 5.
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100 years ago today, Erik Satie, a French composer and pianist, died. (en.wikipedia.org)

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85 years ago today, the military occupation of the Channel Islands by Nazi Germany began. It lasted for most of the Second World War, until liberation on 9 May 1945. (en.wikipedia.org)

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40 years ago today, Michael Phelps, an American former competitive swimmer, was born. He is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 medals. (en.wikipedia.org)

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65 years ago today, Ambroise Boimbo, a Congolese citizen, snatched the ceremonial sword of King Baudouin I of Belgium on the eve of the independence of the Belgian Congo. (infosec.pub)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambroise_Boimbo

Photograph taken by journalist Robert Lebeck

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75 years ago today, during the Korean War: the Bodo League massacre, the Hangang Bridge was blown up, and the Seoul National University Hospital massacre. (infosec.pub)

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Suspected communist sympathizers (between 60,000 and 200,000) were executed in the Bodo League massacre.
Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blew up the Hangang Bridge in an attempt to slow North Korea's offensive. The city fell later that day.
The Korean People's Army killed almost a thousand doctors, nurses, inpatient civilians and wounded soldiers in the Seoul National University Hospital massacre.

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145 years ago today, Helen Keller, an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer, was born. She lost her sight and her hearing when she was 19 months old. (en.wikipedia.org)

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120 years ago today, during the Russo-Japanese War, sailors started a mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin. (en.wikipedia.org)

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30 years ago today, a bloodless palace coup took place in Qatar. It was carried out by Crown Prince Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani who took control of the country while his father was on a visit to Geneva (en.wikipedia.org)

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35 years ago today, the album Goo by the Noise Rock band Sonic Youth from New York, United States, was released. (infosec.pub)

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10 years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. (en.wikipedia.org)

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25 years ago today, the Human Genome Project announced the completion of a "rough draft" sequence. (en.wikipedia.org)

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75 years ago today, the Korean War began with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea. (en.wikipedia.org)

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95 years ago today, Claude Chabrol, a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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30 years ago today, Jonas Salk, an American virologist and medical researcher, died. He developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. (en.wikipedia.org)

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65 years ago today, Erin Brockovich, an American paralegal, consumer advocate, and environmental activist, was born. She was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company. (en.wikipedia.org)

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350 years ago today, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich was founded by King Charles II. It is situated on a hill in Greenwich Park in south east London, overlooking the River Thames to the north. (en.wikipedia.org)

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25 years ago today, Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, was repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote. (en.wikipedia.org)

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25 years ago today, the album White Pony by the Alternative Metal band Deftones from Sacramento, California, was released. (infosec.pub)

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50 years ago today, the film Jaws was released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters". (infosec.pub)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(film)

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80 years ago today, Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and political activist, was born. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. (en.wikipedia.org)

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50 years ago today, World Conference on Women began in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the first international conference held by the United Nations to focus solely on women's issues. (en.wikipedia.org)

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145 years ago today, John Sutter, a Swiss immigrant, died. He became a Mexican and later an American citizen, known for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento. (en.wikipedia.org)

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25 years ago today, Ethiopia and Eritrea agreed to a comprehensive peace agreement and binding arbitration of their disputes under the Algiers Agreement. This ended the Eritrean–Ethiopian War. (en.wikipedia.org)

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100 years ago today, Alexander Shulgin, an American biochemist, broad researcher of synthetic psychoactive compounds, and author of works regarding these, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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80 years ago today, Eddy Merckx, a Belgian former professional road and track cyclist racer, was born. He is the most successful rider in the history of competitive cycling. (en.wikipedia.org)

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