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Today Holidays
Egypt: Sinai's Liberation Day
North-Korea: Anniversary of the Korean People's Army
Portugal: Freedom Day
Italy: Liberation Day
Iceland: First Day of Summer
Tonga: Anzac Day
Niue: Anzac Day
Cook-Islands: Anzac Day
Norfolk-Island: Anzac Day
New-Zealand: Anzac Day
Australia: Anzac Day
Tokelau: Anzac Day
Samoa: Anzac Day

Events

1607 - Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
1707 - The Habsburg army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1792 - Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
1792 - La Marseillaise (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1829 - Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
1846 - Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
1847 - The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
1849 - The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
1859 - British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
1861 - American Civil War: The Union Army arrives in Washington, D.C.
1862 - American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut capture the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
1898 - Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
1901 - New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
1915 - World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins—The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
1916 - Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declare martial law in Ireland.
1916 - Anzac Day commemorated for the first time, on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
1938 - U.S. Supreme Court delivers opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
1939 - DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.
1943 - The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
1944 - The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
1945 - Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
1945 - The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Mussolini tries to escape. This day is taken as symbolic of the Liberation of Italy.
1945 - Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations.
1953 - Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
1959 - The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
1961 - Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
1966 - The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
1972 - Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
1974 - Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal restores democracy after more than forty years as a corporate authoritarian state.
1975 - As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
1981 - More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
1982 - Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
1983 - American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
1983 - Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
1986 - Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
1988 - In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
1990 - The Hubble Telescope is deployed into orbit from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
2003 - The Human Genome Project comes to an end 2.5 years before first anticipated.
2005 - The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
2005 - Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
2005 - 107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
2007 - Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
2007 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 13,000 mark (13,089.89) for the first time ever.

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1 JanuaryNew Year's Day (Anul Nou)
7 JanuaryOrthodox Christmas
8 JanuarySecond Day of Orthodox Christmas (Naşterea lui Isus Hristos)
8 MarchInternational Women's Day (Ziua internaţională a femeii)
1 MayLabour Day (Ziua internaţională a solidarităţii oamenilor muncii)
6 MayOrthodox Easter Monday
9 MayVictory Day (Ziua Victoriei)
27 AugustIndependence Day (Ziua Independenţei)
31 AugustNational Language Day (Limba noastră)
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Republica Moldova
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Capital: Chisinau
Official languages: Moldovan (or Romanian
Government: Republic
Currency: Moldovan Leu (MDL)
Population: 4 324 450
Area: 33 843 km²
Religion: Orthodox Church
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Internet TLD: .md
Calling code: +373
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