2020
Three people stabbed to death in church in Nice, France, in an terrorist attack, after similar attack and President Macron’s defense of right to publish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad.
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2020
South Australian government axes the Adelaide 500 from 2021 Supercars Championship due to COVID-19 and falling revenue.
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2019
Climate Control reported that rising sea levels would “erase” many coastal cities by as early as 2050.
The announcement poses a threat to over 300 million people.
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2018
Nigel Richards won the World Scrabble Championships for the fourth time in a row with the word “groutier.”
Groutier means sulky, surly, or bad-tempered.
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2018
Istanbul Airport was opened by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The huge facility can accommodate up to 200 million passengers a year!
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2015
China increased its one-child policy to two children per family.
Communist officials cited an aging population and the need to “balance social demographics” as the main reasons for relaxing the regulation.
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2008
The James Bond spy movie “Quantum of Solace” with Daniel Craig premiered in London.
It was the first Bond movie to feature a blonde James Bond and was a reboot of the series.
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2007
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner became Argentina’s first female president.
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1999
India was hit by the Odisha super cyclone, India’s strongest storm.
The super cyclonic storm reached wind speeds of 160 miles per hour and killed nearly 10,000 people.
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1998
The first American astronaut to orbit Earth, John Glenn, returned to space aboard NASA’s STS-95 Voyager.
He’s the oldest person to have visited space at the age of 77.
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1969
The first computer-to-computer link was established on ARPANET.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) established many of the connection protocols we still use today and is considered to be the precursor to the internet.
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1959
Adventures of Asterix was first published in the French magazine “Pilote.”
The series follows the adventures of Gaulish warriors who battle the Roman Empire.
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1923
Turkey became a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
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1863
The International Committee of the Red Cross was formed when eighteen countries gathered in Geneva, Switzerland.
The International Committee for Relief to the Wounded proposed the concept to help improve the medical services offered on the battlefield within Europe.
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1787
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni” premiered in Prague.
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1591
Pope Innocent IX was elected.
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