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Stone Cold Steve Austin
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Stone Cold Steve Austin

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Steve Austin, also known by his ring name "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, is an American media personality, actor, producer and retired professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, as an ambassador. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, he was integral to the development and success of th…

We Are Your Friends (film)
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We Are Your Friends (film)
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We Are Your Friends is a 2015 drama film directed by Max Joseph. The screenplay, written by Meaghan Oppenheimer and Jose…

Pablo Escobar
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Pablo Escobar
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Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug lord, narcoterrorist, and politician who was the founder and leader of…

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On This Day

10 events
2019
Hurricane_Dorian
Hurricane Dorian, the most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record outside the tropics, made landfall in the Bahamas at Category 5 intensity.
2000
Speakers'_Corner,_Singapore
Speakers' Corner, a free speech area in Hong Lim Park in Singapore, was launched.
1983
Interceptor_aircraft
A Soviet jet interceptor shot down the civilian Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near the island of Sakhalin in the north Pacific, killing all 246 passengers and 23 crew on board.
1973
Irish_Sea
A 76-hour multinational rescue effort in the Irish Sea resulted in the deepest sub rescue in history (pictured).
1972
Cold_War
In a match widely publicized as a Cold War confrontation, American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer became the 11th World Chess Champion with his victory over Soviet Boris Spassky.
1969
Muammar_Gaddafi
Muammar Gaddafi (pictured) led a coup d'état to overthrow King Idris of Libya.
1967
1967_Arab_League_summit
At an Arab League summit, eight nations issued the Khartoum Resolution, declaring that there would be "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, [and] no negotiations with it".
1966
1966_Dayton_race_riot
Rioting erupted in Dayton, Ohio, resulting in one death and the mobilization of the Ohio National Guard.
1953
KARE_(TV)
Channel 11 began television broadcasts in Minneapolis, United States.
1952
Ernest_Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea, which later won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was first published.

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