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1336 - Francesco Petrarca's (aka Petrarch) ascent of Mt. Ventoux.
1478 - The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
1607 - English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
1802 - Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
1805 - United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
1865 - Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in Virginia.
1865 - American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.
1925 - Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
1933 - The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1945 - World War II: Battle of Bautzen – last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
1946 - Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.
1954 - The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
1956 - First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
1962 - NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1963 - In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
1964 - Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
1965 - A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
1966 - An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
1970 - The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force
1982 - 57 people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
1986 - A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
1991 - Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak).
1994 - A China Airlines Airbus A300-600R crashes at Nagoya Airport, Japan killing everyone on board, with a death toll amounting to 264. See also China Airlines flight 140.
1994 - Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.
2002 - Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt,Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
2005 - Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.
2007 - Queen's Pier is officially closed by the Hong Kong Government, after a bitter struggle by conservationists, in order to facilitate land reclamation in Hong Kong's Central district
2007 - Bronze Night in Tallinn

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2025

1 JanuaryLiberation Day (Triunfo de la Revolución)
2 JanuaryVictory Day
1 MayLabour Day (Día de los trabajadores)
25 JulyDay of the National Rebelliousness (Asalto al cuartel Moncada, Día de la Rebeldía Nacional)
26 JulyDay of the National Rebelliousness (Asalto al cuartel Moncada, Día de la Rebeldía Nacional)
27 JulyDay of the National Rebelliousness (Asalto al cuartel Moncada, Día de la Rebeldía Nacional)
10 OctoberIndependence Day (Aniversario de las Guerras de Independencia)
25 DecemberChristmas (Navidad)
31 DecemberNew Year's Eve
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República de Cuba
Republic of Cuba - FlagRepublic of Cuba - Coat of arms
Republic of Cuba - Location
Capital: Havana
Official languages: Spanish
Government: Socialist republic
Currency: Cuban Peso (CUP)
Population: 11 424 000
Area: 110 860 km²
Religion: Catholicism (85%)
Time Zone:
UTC -5 winter
UTC-4 summer
Auto Code: C
Internet TLD: .cu
Calling code: +53
Corporate Income Tax: 30,00%
Personal Income Tax: 10-50%
Value Added Tax: 12,00%
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