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Spectre (2015 film)
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Spectre (2015 film)

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Spectre is a 2015 spy thriller film directed by Sam Mendes and written by John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Jez Butterworth from a story conceived by Logan, Purvis, and Wade. The sequel to Skyfall (2012), it is the twenty-fourth instalment in the James Bond film series produced by Eon Productions and the fourth…

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Hedy Lamarr
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Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian and American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, includ…

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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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On This Day

10 events
2020
Second_Nagorno-Karabakh_War
Second Nagorno-Karabakh War: Azerbaijani forces defeated the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh in the Battle of Shusha, reclaiming the town after 28 years.
2017
Louvre_Abu_Dhabi
The Louvre Abu Dhabi was inaugurated by the French president Emmanuel Macron and then-crown prince of Abu Dhabi Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
2013
Typhoon_Haiyan
Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Visayas region of the Philippines, killing at least 6,300 people, making it the deadliest Philippine typhoon recorded in modern history.
1999
Der_Spiegel
German newspaper Der Spiegel publishes a report by the Federal Intelligence Service accusing figures in Liechtenstein of cooperating with organized crime.
1987
Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army
A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing 12 people and injuring 63 others.
1974
John_Bingham,_7th_Earl_of_Lucan
British peer Lord Lucan disappeared without a trace, a day after allegedly murdering Sandra Rivett, his children's nanny.
1971
Led_Zeppelin
English rock group Led Zeppelin released their fourth album, which became one of the best-selling albums worldwide.
1966
Massachusetts
Former Massachusetts attorney general Edward Brooke became the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
1965
Vietnam_War
Vietnam War: In the Battle of Gang Toi, one of the earliest battles between the two sides, Viet Cong forces repelled an Australian attack.
1957
Pan_Am_Flight_7
En route from San Francisco to Honolulu, Pan Am Flight 7 crashed into the Pacific Ocean due to unknown causes, killing all 44 people on board.

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