2021
UN report says current climate pledges put world on course for “catastrophic” average 2.7-degree Celsius temperature rise this century ahead of Glasgow climate summit.
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2021
NASA scientists think they have detected the first planet outside our galaxy, in Whirlpool Galaxy (M51), 28 million light-years away.
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2018
Singer Sinéad O’Connor was converted to Islam.
As part of her conversion, she also changed her name to Shuhada.
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2018
Cesar Sayoc was arrested for sending 14 pipe bombs to prominent US Democrats.
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2018
Rockstar Games’ hit Wild-West series returned with the release of Red Dead Redemption 2.
It took over eight years to develop. Being a blockbuster Rockstar Games title, it unsurprisingly ranks as one of the most expensive video games ever made. However, all that time and money paid off, with the game raking in US$725 million in sales in its first weekend alone.
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2015
The twenty-fourth James Bond movie “Spectre,” starring Daniel Craig, premiered in London.
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2003
The Cedar Fire swept through San Diego County, California, destroying 2,232 homes and killing fifteen people.
The wildfire swept through 273,246 acres of land and caused more than $1.3 billion in damages.
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2001
The American sci-fi movie “Donnie Darko” with Jake Gyllenhaal was released in the US.
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1984
The Terminator, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, was released in the US.
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1975
The US received Anwar Sadat, its first Egyptian presidential visit.
His trip was devoted to sourcing arms and helping the country’s economy.
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1968
The Soyuz 3 spacecraft achieved the first Soviet space rendezvous with Soyuz 2.
Soyuz 3 was intended to not just rendezvous with Soyuz 2 but also to dock with it. Despite multiple attempts, docking was not achieved, so the USSR claimed that docking was never intended. It wasn’t until documents were released following the collapse of the Soviet Union that the lie was discovered.
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1958
Pan American Airways made the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.
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1918
Stonehenge was given over to the British Government by its private landowner.
Cecil Chubb donated the monument to the government and was the last private individual to own Stonehenge.
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1892
Ida B. Wells published “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.”
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1881
The most famous western gunfight happened at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
The fight lasted 30 seconds between a posse of Lawmen involving Wyatt Earp and a group of outlaws. Three men died from gunshot wounds.
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1858
Inventor Hamilton Smith received his patent for his rotary washing machine.
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1377
Tvrtko I became the first king of Bosnia.
In 1353 Stephen Tvrtko I became Ban of Bosnia following the death of his uncle and eventually named himself king of Bosnia and Serbia In 1377. He did this by claiming he was the heir of Serbia’s Nemanjić dynasty.
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