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40 years ago today, Psychocandy, the debut studio album by Scottish rock band the Jesus and Mary Chain, was released by Blanco y Negro Records.

80 years ago today, Wilma Mankiller, a Native American activist, social worker, community developer and the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, was born.

100 years ago today, Rock Hudson, an American actor, was born. He had a screen career spanning more than three decades, and was a prominent figure in the Golden Age of Hollywood.

125 years ago today, Eliška Junková, a Czech automobile racer, was born. She is regarded as one of the most significant drivers in Grand Prix motor racing history.

80 years ago today, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, a Swedish singer, was born. She is best known as one of the founding members and lead singers of the pop band ABBA.

10 years ago today, coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris perpetrated by the Islamic State killed 130 people and injured 413 others.

80 years ago today, Neil Young, a Canadian and American singer-songwriter, was born. He embarked on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s.

50 years ago today, Angola became independent from Portugal.

505 years ago today, more than 50 people were sentenced and executed in the Stockholm Bloodbath.

90 years ago today, Alain Delon, a French actor, film producer, screenwriter, singer, and businessman, was born. Delon emerged as one of the foremost European actors of the late 1950s to the 1980s.

200 years ago today, Jereboam O. Beauchamp murdered Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp; Beauchamp later became the first person legally executed in the state.

420 years ago today, Guy Fawkes was arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament, where he had planted gunpowder in an attempt to blow up the building and kill King James I of England.

55 years ago today, authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child, pseudonymously known as Genie, who had spent nearly her entire life in social isolation.

270 years ago today, in Portugal, Lisbon was totally devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing an estimated 40,000 to 60,000 people.

60 years ago today, the Leipzig Beat Revolt took place. The demonstration was an expression of youth emancipation in the GDR, directed against the state ban on beat music and numerous beat groups.

75 years ago today, Zaha Hadid, an Iraqi and British architect, artist, and designer, was born. She is recognised as a key figure in the architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries.

10 years ago today, China announced the end of its one-child policy after 35 years.

95 years ago today, Niki de Saint Phalle, a French sculptor, painter, filmmaker, and author of colorful hand-illustrated books, was born.

60 years ago today, Pope Paul VI promulgated Nostra aetate, by which the Roman Catholic Church officially recognized the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.

750 years ago today was the traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.