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Ken Allen
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Ken Allen

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Kenneth Allen was a male Bornean orangutan at the San Diego Zoo in California, United States. He became one of the most popular animals in the zoo's history because of his many successful escapes from his enclosures. He was nicknamed "The Hairy Houdini".

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Super Game Boy
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The Super Game Boy is a peripheral that allows Game Boy cartridges to be played on a Super Nintendo Entertainment System…

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UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying
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The UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying tournament was a football competition that was played from September 2014 to November 2015…

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On This Day

10 events
2013
Collapse_of_the_Space_Building
Twelve people were killed in an apartment-building collapse in Medellín, leading to new construction laws being passed in Colombia.
1992
Seismic_magnitude_scales
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 or 5.9 struck south of Cairo, Egypt, killing 545 people.
1984
Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army
The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, in a failed attempt to assassinate British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet.
1979
Typhoon_Tip
Typhoon Tip, the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded, reached a worldwide record-low sea-level pressure of 870 mbar (25.69 inHg) in the western Pacific Ocean.
1978
James_Scott_(boxer)
While in prison for murder, boxer James Scott defeated Eddie "The Flame" Gregory, a leading light heavyweight.
1960
Nikita_Khrushchev
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reportedly pounded his shoe on a desk during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong.
1960
Japan_Socialist_Party
Japan Socialist Party leader Inejirō Asanuma (pictured) was assassinated during a live television recording by a far-right ultra-nationalist using a short sword.
1946
Il_Canto_degli_Italiani
Il Canto degli Italiani is adopted as national anthem by the newly formed Italian Republic.
1933
United_States_Department_of_Justice
The United States Department of Justice acquired a military prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, to be transformed into the last-resort Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
1928
Iron_lung
The iron lung (example pictured), a type of medical ventilator, was used for the first time at the Boston Children's Hospital to treat an eight-year-old girl paralyzed by polio.

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