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On This Day In History<p>Today in 1918, 107 years ago: in Costa Rica, under the dictatorship of Federico Tinoco Granados, government soldiers assassinate the writer Rogelio Fernández Güell and four opponents in Buenos Aires de Puntarenas</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1916, 109 years ago: US President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 US troops across the Mexican border in search of Pancho Villa.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1874, 151 years ago: France and Vietnam sign the Second Treaty of Saigon, further recognizing the full sovereignty of France over Cochinchina.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1961, 64 years ago: At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1961, 64 years ago: at the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the 1961 Constitution of South Africa comes into force.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1990, 35 years ago: Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 2019, 6 years ago: Cyclone Idai made landfall in Mozambique, causing at least 205 deaths and causing massive flooding and power outages in southern Africa.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1493, 532 years ago: in Spain, Christopher Columbus, with the Pinzón brothers and their men, disembarks in the port of Palos de la Frontera after his first trip to America.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1834, 191 years ago: in the state of Costa Rica of the Federal Republic of Central America, the Ambulance Law was passed. In this law, the capital would reside on a rotating basis in the cities of Alajuela, Heredia, San José and Cartago</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
50+ Music<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> in 1941, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MikeLove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MikeLove</span></a>, American vocalist (Beach Boys - "Fun, Fun, Fun"; "California Girls"), born in Los Angeles, California. 🥂✨🧁<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HappyBirthday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HappyBirthday</span></a> #84</p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1986, 39 years ago: Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 2019, 6 years ago: Approximately 1.4 million young people in 123 countries go on strike to protest climate change.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1960, 65 years ago: Nicolae Steinhardt is baptized an Orthodox Christian.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1951, 74 years ago: Iranian oil industry is nationalized.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1875, 150 years ago: Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1945, 80 years ago: in Guatemala City, the pedagogue and philosopher Juan José Arévalo assumes the presidency.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1921, 104 years ago: Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1951, 74 years ago: in Guatemala City, the military and nationalist Jacobo Árbenz, who will be overthrown by the US CIA, assumes the presidency.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 2014, 11 years ago: Pope Francis appointed as the third bishop of the diocese of Ciudad Quesada in Costa Rica the priest José Manuel Garita Herrera.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1939, 86 years ago: Czechoslovakia becomes the "German protectorate" of Bohemia and Moravia after the occupation of Prague by the Nazis.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>