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50 years ago today, an American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft docked with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.

75 years ago today, thirty unarmed, critically wounded United States Army soldiers and an unarmed chaplain were murdered by members of the Korean People's Army during the Battle of the Kum River.

50 years ago today, the Icelandic government announced its intention to extend its fishery limits. Four months later, the Third Cod War began after Iceland again extended its fishing limits.

470 years ago today, Cum nimis absurdum, a papal bull, was signed. It established the Roman Ghetto and required the Jews of Rome to live in it.

40 years ago today, the Live Aid benefit concert took place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.

50 years ago today, São Tomé and Príncipe declared independence from Portugal. It is an island country in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Central Africa.

50 years ago today, the second eponymous album by the Blues Rock / Pop Rock band Fleetwood Mac was released.

40 years ago today, the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior was bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.

100 years ago today, in Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" began of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

175 years ago today, following Zachary Taylor's death, Millard Fillmore became president of the United States, the last member of the Whig Party to hold that office.

60 years ago today, Ronnie Biggs, known for the Great Train Robbery of 1963, escaped from Wandsworth Prison, scaling the wall with a rope ladder and dropping onto a waiting removal van.

740 years ago today, Tile Kolup was burned at the stake as a heretic. He was an impostor who in 1284 began to pretend to be Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.

50 years ago today, the Comoros declared independence from France. It is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel.

220 years ago today, Robert FitzRoy, an English officer of the Royal Navy, politician and scientist, was born. He served as the second governor of New Zealand between 1843 and 1845.

60 years ago today, Maria Callas, an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century, ended her stage career in the role of Tosca.

30 years ago today, Bob Ross, an American painter and art instructor, died. He created and hosted The Joy of Painting, an instructional television program.

40 years ago today, Back to the Future, an American science fiction film, was released. It was directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale.

125 years ago today, Muhammad Asad, an Austro-Hungarian Muslim polymath, was born in modern-day Ukraine as Leopold Weiss. He worked as a journalist, traveler, writer, political theorist, and diplomat.

100 years ago today, Patrice Lumumba, a Congolese politician and independence leader, was born. He served as the first prime minister of the DRC (then known as the Republic of the Congo).

125 years ago today, the Zeppelin LZ 1, the first successful experimental rigid airship, was first flown from a floating hangar on Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen in southern Germany.