#ThrowbackThursday: How the world looked on this day in history

On this day in…

… 1947, the presidential guards outside the Elysee palace in Paris wore this.

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… 1960, Salvador Dali was unveiling his work ‘The Discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus’ in New York.

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… 1970, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi formally took control of Libya, four months after leading a bloodless coup against its former king.

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… 1979, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi left Iran, never to return. His departure, after months of protests, set the stage for Iran's transition into the Islamic republic it is today.

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… 1983, a pig named Botham (after English cricketer Ian Botham) found its way onto the pitch in Brisbane, where Australia was playing England in the Ashes cricket series.

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… 1993 in El Salvador, thousands of people were celebrating the signing of a peace treaty that ended 12 years of civil war.

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… 1993, Bill Clinton was packing up his closets and leaving Little Rock, Arkansas, for Washington DC, where he would be inaugurated four days later as president of the United States.

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… 1995, Sarajevo was under snow and under siege in the depths of the Bosnian War.

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… 2002, Argentina’s government had just defaulted on most of its public debt and abandoned the fixed exchange rate between the peso and the US dollar.

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… 2003, one of the crew on the US Space Shuttle Columbia was about to take this photograph of Earth — just days before the shuttle broke apart on reentry, killing all seven people onboard.

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… 2010, Port-au-Prince was in ruins, three days after the massive earthquake that destroyed entire swathes of Haiti’s capital.

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… 2013, in foggy London, a helicopter crashed into a crane on top of a tower and killed two Brits.

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… 2013, President Barack Obama announced proposed changes to reduce gun violence in the United States, watched by children who’d written to the White House after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

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