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125 years ago AC Milano was established


225 years ago the (formerly) mighty Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie is officially disolved.


65 years ago was the start of the building of the Assuam dam.

The effects can be described as "mixed" but probably the modernization of Egypt would have been impossible without it.

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55 years ago the Biafra war ended with a defeat of the secessionists.

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1547: Iwan VI. (later known as "the horrible" is crowned Zar of Russia.


340 years ago Johannes Theodat receives the privilege to dish out coffee. You could call it the advent of the Vienna Coffee-House culture.

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455 years ago Queen Elizabeth I. of England was excommunicated by Pope Pius V.

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125 years ago the DFB (Deutscher Fußball Bund) was established.

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325 years ago the great Northern War began.


60 years ago the new Canadain flag was flown the first time.


@Ponderable said
60 years ago the new Canadain flag was flown the first time.
🇨🇦👍

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5 years ago a German racist killed 9 people in Hanau...Such a sad Day

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Three years ago the Russian Invasion of the Ukraine took place.

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@Ponderable said
455 years ago Queen Elizabeth I. of England was excommunicated by Pope Pius V.
Seems that this was error...it was today 455 years ago...

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1964: Cassius Clay (later, Mohammad Ali) becomes Heavyweight Champion.

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