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25 years ago today, Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashed outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing 113 people.

100 years ago today, Miiko Taka, an American actress, was born. Her best known role was as an elegant Japanese dancer starring with Marlon Brando in the drama Sayonara.

40 years ago today, the Amiga 1000, based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor, was released, but production problems kept it from becoming widely available until early 1986.

80 years ago today, the post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain, head of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II, began.

135 years ago today, Rose Kennedy, an American philanthropist, socialite, and matriarch of the Kennedy family, was born.

60 years ago today, the 1965 Newport Folk Festival began in Rhode Island. On the last day, Bob Dylan was booed by some fans when he played with several members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

75 years ago today, Leopold III returned to Belgium. This was met with one of the most violent general strikes in the history of Belgium.

100 years ago today, in Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching human evolution in class and fined $100.

75 years ago today, a month-long fight for air supremacy over South Korea ended in victory for the UN air force, which was able to destroy the small North Korean People's Air Force.

125 years ago today, the first line of the Paris Métro opened for operation. It connects La Défense in the northwest and Château de Vincennes in the southeast.

330 years ago today, John Houghton printed the first personal ad from a man seeking a wife in A Collection for Improvement of Husbandry and Trade.

150 years ago today, Jane Franklin, a British explorer, seasoned traveller and the second wife of the English explorer Sir John Franklin, died.

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.