Anniversaries: X years ago today

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English-speaking community for anniversaries. This also includes personal events!

Rules:

Mandatory title format: "X years ago today […]", where of course X is replaced by the number of years.
X ≥ 5.
English language only, but links to non-English sources are allowed if a (short) English summary is provided.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page > On this day
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95 years ago today King Alexander changed the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to Kingdom of Yugoslavia (en.wikipedia.org)

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…and changed the internal divisions from the 33 oblasts to nine new banovinas.

70 years ago today Stevie Ray Vaughan, an electric blues guitarist from Texas, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/stevie-ray-vaughan

240 years ago today Louise, Baroness Lehzen, the governess and later companion to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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30 years ago today Harriet Nelson, a singer & TV / film actress from US, died. (en.wikipedia.org)

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https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/harriet-hilliard

120 years ago today Thomas Ellison, a New Zealand rugby union player and lawyer, died. (en.wikipedia.org)

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450 years ago today Hans Michael Elias von Obentraut, a German cavalry general who fought on the side of the Protestant Union during the Thirty Years' War, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Michael_Elias_von_Obentraut

155 years ago today Mahatma Gandhi was born (en.wikipedia.org)

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60 years ago today Max Matsuura, producer from Japan and president of Avex Group, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/max_matsuura

2,355 years ago today the Battle of Gaugamela took place between the forces of the Army of Macedon under Alexander the Great and the Persian Army under King Darius III. (upload.wikimedia.org)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaugamela

100 years ago today Jimmy Carter, an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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75 years ago today the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was formally proclaimed by Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. (en.wikipedia.org)

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30 years ago today Sleepy Boris 'snubbed' Irish leader: A meeting between two international statesmen in Ireland had to be cancelled - because one of them overslept. (news.bbc.co.uk)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin_circling_over_Shannon_diplomatic_incident

60 years ago today Trey Anastasio, an American guitarist, composer, and singer-songwriter best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Phish, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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70 years ago today USS Nautilus — world’s first nuclear submarine — is commissioned. (www.history.com)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus_(SSN-571)

885 years ago today a violent earthquake struck the Caucasus near Ganja, killing up to an estimated 300,000 people. (en.wikipedia.org)

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100 years ago today Truman Garcia Capote, an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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80 years ago today Anne Patricia Briggs, an English folk singer, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/anne-briggs

300 years ago today J. S. Bach led the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130, based on Paul Eber's hymn in twelve stanzas, for the feast of archangel Michael. (en.wikipedia.org)

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150 years ago today high school students from Braunschweig played the first soccer match in Germany. (en.wikipedia.org)

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German source (Deutschlandfunk)

High school students from Braunschweig played the first soccer match in Germany on September 29, 1874. Their Latin teacher had encouraged them to take part: He wanted less military drill like in gymnastics and more team sports in the fresh air.