68460 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.yellowad.co.uk/category/news/today-in-history/…it happened on this day! Look back through our archive to find out what happened on this day or any other in history! 762: The city of Baghdad is founded by Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur, just north of ancient Baghdad. 1678: English troops land 904: Thessalonica is sacked by Saracen pirates led by renegade Leo of Tripoli.2021-07-30T03:08+0200barnet-today-0f1a532b9bf3257ba4f7e173477ebac120210730030800https://www.hjnews.com/nation/largest-us-quake-in-half-century-causes-alaska-little-damage/article_a4006cde-1991-5d48-a6cb-c1f2dc3227a7.htmlA line of cars evacuates the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska on July 28, 2021, after a tsunami warning was issued following a magnitude 8.2 earthquake. The tsunami warning for much of Alaska's southern coast was canceled when the biggest wave, of just over a half foot, was recorded in Old Harbor. Alaska.2021-07-30T02:30+0200hjnews-cbcc0564c0b909190784efc01301d0e120210730023000https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/07/30/world/earthquake-jolts-alaska/ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The most powerful U.S. earthquake in half a century left Alaska mostly unscathed thanks to the remote location and depth of the epicenter, officials said on Thursday. The magnitude 8.2 Chignik Earthquake, which struck at 10:15 p.m. local time on Wednesday just off the Aleutians,....2021-07-30T02:24+0200japantimes-0078b06130d542bfae257cd147da0f4820210730022400https://www.beloitdailynews.com/news/national-news/largest-us-quake-in-half-century-causes-alaska-little-damage/article_76d40944-17d6-584b-9a4c-be3e45747771.htmlA line of cars evacuates the Homer Spit in Homer, Alaska on July 28, 2021, after a tsunami warning was issued following a magnitude 8.2 earthquake. The tsunami warning for much of Alaska's southern coast was canceled when the biggest wave, of just over a half foot, was recorded in Old Harbor. Alaska.2021-07-30T02:17+0200beloitdailynews-caa1f9f5369092e9a09cc84435e321b220210730021700