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.
English language only, but links to non-English sources are allowed if a (short) English summary is provided.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page > On this day
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/default.stm

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70 years ago today Rickie Lee Jones, an American singer/songwriter, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/rickie-lee-jones

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380 years ago today the Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, was enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China. (en.wikipedia.org)

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85 years ago today Georg Elser's bomb exploded. He carried out an elaborate assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich. (en.wikipedia.org)

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Hitler survived as he left 13 minutes before the explosion

Elser was arrested and executed in 1945

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45 years ago today a group of armed Iranian college students took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took American diplomats and citizens as hostages. (en.wikipedia.org)

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35 years ago today half a million demonstrators turned out against the East German regime in East Berlin. (en.wikipedia.org)

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German source (Deutschlandfunk)

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70 years ago today Adam Ant, the frontman of Adam and the Ants, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/adam-ant

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75 years ago today Anna Wintour, a British-American media executive, was born. She has been serving as editor-in-chief of Vogue since 1988. (en.wikipedia.org)

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10 years ago today the One World Trade Center opened. It is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan and the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. (en.wikipedia.org)

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25 years ago today the album The Battle of Los Angeles by the Rap Metal band Rage Against the Machine from United States was released. (i.ibb.co)

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20 years ago today the Dutch film director Theo van Gogh was murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri, a Dutch-Moroccan Islamist who objected to one of his film's message. (en.wikipedia.org)

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80 years ago today Kinky Friedman, an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist and politician, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/kinky-friedman

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165 years ago today Charles Eliot—landscape architect, writer and theorist on landscape architecture, visionary land preservationist and regional planner, and early environmentalist—was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/november-01/#charles-eliot

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110 years ago today the Battle of Coronel, a First World War naval battle, led to an Imperial German Navy victory over the Royal Navy off the coast of central Chile near the city of Coronel. (upload.wikimedia.org)

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

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810 years ago today Seljuq Turks captured the important port city of Sinope during the Byzantine–Seljuk wars. (en.wikipedia.org)

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70 years ago today the Algerian War was effectively started by members of the Algerian National Liberation Front during the Toussaint Rouge ("Red All Saints' Day"). (en.wikipedia.org)

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280 years ago today Leonardo Leo, a Baroque composer, died. (en.wikipedia.org)

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https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/leonardo_leo

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160 years ago today the Capture of Plymouth, a battle of the American Civil War, ended with a United States victory. (upload.wikimedia.org)

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

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40 years ago today the Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi was murdered in her home by two bodyguards. (en.wikipedia.org)

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

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40 years ago today the body of Jerzy Popiełuszko was recovered from the Vistula Water Reservoir near Włocławek. He was murdered in 1984 by three agents of a Polish secret police force. (en.wikipedia.org)

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Father Jerzy Popieluszko, an outspoken supporter of Poland's banned trade union, is found dead 11 days after he was kidnapped.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/30/newsid_4111000/4111722.stm

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100 years ago today Tom Clancy, Irish folk singer and member of The Clancy Brothers, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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195 years ago today Maria Anna Mozart, a highly regarded musician from Salzburg, Austria, died. (upload.wikimedia.org)

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

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65 years ago today the first Asterix comic was published in Pilote magazine. (i.ibb.co)

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20 years ago today the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe was signed. Due to the rejection of the document by French and Dutch voters the treaty wasn't ratified. (en.wikipedia.org)

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

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75 years ago today Caitlyn Jenner, an American media personality and former Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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