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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Resources for discovering anniversaries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page > On this day
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/default.stm

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80 years ago today, Eric Bloom, a singer & guitarist in Blue Öyster Cult, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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180 years ago today, Edwin Francis Jemison, an American Confederate soldier, was born. He served in the 2nd Louisiana Infantry Regiment. (en.wikipedia.org)

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60 years ago today, Don Redman, an American jazz musician, arranger, bandleader, and composer, died. (en.wikipedia.org)

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70 years ago today, Ann Elizabeth Fowler Hodges was struck by a meteorite and lived through the encounter. (en.wikipedia.org)

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90 years ago today, Flying Scotsman became the first steam locomotive officially to exceed 100 miles per hour (161 km/h). (en.wikipedia.org)

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150 years ago today, Winston Churchill, a British statesman, military officer, and writer, was born. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. (en.wikipedia.org)

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80 years ago today, Twink, a drummer and member of Pink Fairies, was born. (en.wikipedia.org)

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100 years ago today, the Bronx County Bird Club was formed and would go on to lead the Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count in the eastern US for three years in a row. (en.wikipedia.org)

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125 years ago today, Football Club Barcelona was born as a result of a meeting initiated by Joan Gamper and attended by eleven players. (en.wikipedia.org)

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160 years ago today, the Sand Creek massacre, a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars, occurred. (en.wikipedia.org)

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A 675-man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry under the command of U.S. Volunteers Colonel John Chivington attacked and destroyed a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in southeastern Colorado Territory, killing and mutilating an estimated 70 to over 600 Native American people.