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Chris Stapleton
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Chris Stapleton

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Christopher Alvin Stapleton is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Born in Kentucky, he moved to Nashville in 1996 to study for an engineering degree from Vanderbilt University, but dropped out to pursue a career in music. Shortly after, Stapleton signed a contract with Sea Gayle Music to write and publish his…

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Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Web scrapi…

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Guy Fawkes Night
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Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire Night and Fireworks Night, is an annual commemoration observed o…

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On This Day

10 events
2013
ISRO
The Indian Space Research Organisation launched the Mars Orbiter Mission, India's first interplanetary probe.
2009
United_States_Army
U.S. Army major Nidal Hasan went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, the worst shooting ever to take place on an American military base, killing 13.
2003
Gary_Ridgway
American serial killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of first-degree murder.
1995
Aline_Chrétien
Aline Chrétien (pictured) thwarted André Dallaire's attempt to assassinate her husband, Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien, by locking the bedroom door in 24 Sussex Drive, their official residence in Ottawa.
1990
Ultranationalism
Israeli ultra-nationalist rabbi Meir Kahane (pictured) was assassinated in a New York City hotel by an Arab gunman.
1950
Korean_War
Korean War: The 27th British Commonwealth Brigade succeeded in preventing a Chinese breakthrough at the Battle of Pakchon.
1944
World_War_II
World War II: Allied forces began a military campaign on Japanese-occupied Singapore.
1943
World_War_II
World War II: An unknown aircraft dropped four bombs on Vatican City, which maintained neutrality during the war.
1916
Everett_massacre
An armed confrontation in Everett, Washington, between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World resulted in seven deaths.
1854
Crimean_War
Crimean War: Despite being severely outnumbered, and fighting in heavy foggy conditions, the allied armies of the United Kingdom and France defeated the Russians in present-day Inkerman, Ukraine.

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