2019
Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke shared her experience of fighting for her life after suffering two brain aneurysms during filming.
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2019
A woman in Bangladesh gave birth to twins one month after giving birth previously.
It turned out that the mother had two uteruses.
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2016
Aaron Carpenter swam with dolphins for the first time.
He tweeted saying, “I just rode a dolphin!!!!”
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2013
Europe’s Planck spacecraft found evidence that our universe is 13.8 billion years old.
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2013
The world’s largest postage stamp was released.
The Mother of Emirates postage stamp entered the Guinness World Records after measuring 1.36 x 1.77 meters.
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2006
The first-ever Tweet was published on Twitter.
Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, wrote the first tweet. His first message was posted at 09:50 on this day and said, “just setting up my twttr.”
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1990
After seventy-five years of South African rule, Namibia finally gained its independence.
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1984
Central Park designated a section of its grounds as “Strawberry Fields” to commemorate John Lennon, who was shot dead in his nearby residence.
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1963
Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay closed its gates for good.
The choice came after 20 years of concerns about the costs to keep the prison running and how prisoners were treated.
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1962
Glen Bell opened the very first Taco Bell restaurant, in Downey, California.
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1860
English Novelist George Eliot completed her famous book called “The Mill on the Floss.”
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1859
The First Zoological Society in the US was formed in Philadelphia.
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1349
Between 100 and 3000 Jews were killed in riots in The Erfurt Massacre in the town of Erfurt, Germany.
Jews were often blamed for Europe’s Black Death, and many Jews set fire to their own homes, opting to die in the flames rather than being lynched by mobs.
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