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Anniversaries [embed into YOUR website!]
Events (50 years ago today): 1976 – Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
Births (200 years ago today): 1826 – Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist and botanist (died 1897)
Births (100 years ago today): 1926 – Efraín Ríos Montt, Guatemalan general and politician, 26th President of Guatemala (died 2018)
Deaths (400 years ago today): 1626 – Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (born 1599)
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