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Events (250 years ago today): 1776 – Empress Maria Theresa of Austria amends the Constitutio Criminalis Theresiana to include the abolition of torture throughout the Habsburg-ruled countries of Austria and Bohemia.[7]
Events (50 years ago today): 1976 – The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage.[31]
Births (100 years ago today): 1926 – Gino Marchetti, American football player (died 2019)[96]
Births (50 years ago today): 1976 – Paz Vega, Spanish actress[123]
Deaths (300 years ago today): 1726 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian organist and composer (born 1688)[195]
Deaths (150 years ago today): 1876 – Meta Heusser-Schweizer, Swiss poet (born 1797)[200]
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