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1979

• Saddam Hussein takes office in Iraq with CIA backing.

1948

• Zionist forces capture the city of Nazareth during the 1948 Arab–"Israeli" War.

1945

• The United States detonates a nuclear weapon on indigenous land near Alamogordo, New Mexico, being the first country to do so.

1931

• Emperor Haile Selassie signs Ethiopia's first constitution.

1918

• The Romanov family is executed in Yekaterinburg, Russian SFSR, USSR

1809

• La Paz, in today's Bolivia, declares independence from the Spanish crown.

1790

• Washington, D.C. is established as the capital city of the United States of America.