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Do you remember Hurricane Leslie in 2018? And Xola in 2009? We look back to place the storm that devastated Leiria on a short, grim list.

CNN Portugal29 Jan

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1521: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sights the island of Samar in the Philippines, becoming the first European to reach the Philippine archipelago during his circumnavigation voyage.
1838: The Portuguese Cortes debates the new Constitution of 1838 ('Constituição Setembrista'), a compromise between the progressive Constitution of 1822 and the conservative Constitutional Charter of 1826.

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1968: The My Lai massacre takes place during the Vietnam War, when U.S. soldiers kill hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians, becoming one of the war's most notorious atrocities.

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