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3 hours ago · Today, we remember the 1974 Carnation Revolution. But as memories of dictatorship fade, anti-democratic forces are on the rise Fifty years ago, on 25 April 1974, a military-led movement in ...
15 hours ago · The Cuban Revolution ( Spanish: Revolución cubana) was a military and political effort to overthrow the government of Cuba between 1953 and 1959. It began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état which placed Fulgencio Batista as head of state.
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15 hours ago · Portugal, [e] officially the Portuguese Republic, [f] is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, its mainland west and south border with the North Atlantic Ocean and in ...
15 hours ago · The College of William & Mary in Virginia (abbreviated as W&M), is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia. Founded in 1693 under a royal charter issued by King William III and Queen Mary II , it is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and the ninth-oldest in the English-speaking world . [7]
- February 8, 1693; 330 years ago
15 hours ago · The Russo-Japanese War ( Japanese: 日露戦争, romanized : Nichiro sensō, lit. 'Japanese-Russian War'; Russian: русско-японская война, romanized : russko-yaponskaya voyna) was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. [4]
- 8 February 1904, – 5 September 1905, (1 year, 6 months and 4 weeks)
- Japanese victory, Treaty of Portsmouth
