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1935: Adelaide Cabete, one of Portugal's foremost feminists and among the first Portuguese women to qualify as a physician, dies in Lisbon. An obstetrician, republican and abolitionist, she presided over the National Council of Portuguese Women for more than twenty years, campaigning tirelessly for women's rights and suffrage.
1978: The Assembly of the Republic rejects the programme of Alfredo Nobre da Costa's Third Constitutional Government, the first cabinet of presidential initiative appointed by President Ramalho Eanes; Nobre da Costa was dismissed the following day.

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1959: The Soviet probe Luna 2 becomes the first man-made object to reach the Moon, crashing onto the lunar surface just after midnight Moscow time on 14 September (late 13 September UTC) and proving that spacecraft from Earth could reach another world.

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