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Carly Fiorina
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Carly Fiorina

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Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina is an American businesswoman and politician, known primarily for her tenure as chief executive officer (CEO) of Hewlett-Packard (HP) from 1999 to 2005. Fiorina was the first woman to lead a Fortune Top-20 company.

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M. F. Husain
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Maqbool Fida Husain was an Indian painter and film director who painted narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style. …

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Ben Carson
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Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr. is an American retired neurosurgeon, academic, author, and government official who served as…

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On This Day

10 events
2018
Israeli_Air_Force
The Israeli Air Force conducted missile strikes that hit multiple targets in western Syria; Syrian air defences responding to the strikes accidentally downed a Russian plane.
2011
Adbusters
Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist publication, organized a protest against corporate influence on democracy at Zuccotti Park in New York City that became known as Occupy Wall Street.
2001
George_W._Bush
American president George W. Bush delivered remarks at the Islamic Center of Washington (pictured) condemning Islamophobia in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
1985
HIV/AIDS
Four years after AIDS was first identified in the United States, Ronald Reagan publicly acknowledged AIDS (video featured) for the first time.
1980
Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)
Solidarity, a Polish trade union, was founded as the first independent labor union in an Eastern Bloc country.
1970
Amman
The Jordanian army entered Amman as part of operations to oust Palestinian fedayeen from the country in events later known as Black September (smoke over city pictured).
1962
NASA
NASA announced the Next Nine astronauts selected for the purpose of landing on the moon.
1958
Tintin_in_Tibet
Tintin in Tibet, the twentieth volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé and which he regarded as his favourite in the series, began serialisation.
1939
World_War_II
Second World War: The Royal Navy lost its first warship in the war when German submarine U-29 torpedoed and sank HMS Courageous.
1939
World_War_II
World War II: The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, sixteen days after Nazi Germany's attack on the country from the west.

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