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Minister of State Reform and Portuguese Ambassador to Madrid visited the Fe...

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The Minister of State Reform and the Portuguese Ambassador to Madrid visited the Fe... (incomplete text)

SAPO11 Aug

Minister of State Reform and Portuguese Ambassador to Madrid visited the Fe...

Campo Maior People's Festivals to carry UNESCO 'seal' from 8 to 16 August

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The traditional Campo Maior People's Festivals, in the district of Portalegre, will take place again this year from 8 to 16 August, with an investment of more than €600,000, according to the organisers.

RTP Notícias12 Jan

Campo Maior People's Festivals to carry UNESCO 'seal' from 8 to 16 August

Portugal

1340:The Battle of Salado
Afonso IV of Portugal and his son-in-law Alfonso XI of Castile rout the Marinid army of Abu al-Hasan and the forces of Granada at the Battle of Salado near Tarifa, ending the last major Moroccan invasion of the Iberian Peninsula.
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1954: The Ponte de Santa Clara over the Mondego at Coimbra, designed by the engineers Edgar Cardoso and António Franco de Abreu, is inaugurated by Salazar, replacing the iron bridge of 1875.

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1938: Orson Welles's radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's 'The War of the Worlds' is broadcast by CBS, its realistic news-bulletin format causing alarm among some listeners who believed Martians had landed in New Jersey.

Who led the rebuilding of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake?

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