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Adv17 For release Thursday, July 17

 
Published July 16, 2014

TODAY IN HISTORY

1821: Spain ceded Florida to the United States.

1918: Russia's Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.

1936: The Spanish Civil War began as right-wing army generals launched a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic.

1955: Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif.

1981: 114 people were killed when a pair of suspended walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed during a tea dance.