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Thanksgiving

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Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in October and November in the United States, Canada, Saint Lucia, Liberia, and unofficially in countries like Germany. It is also observed in the Australian territory of Norfolk Island. It began as a day of giving thanks for the blessin…

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Verghese Kurien
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Verghese Kurien was an Indian dairy engineer and social entrepreneur. He led initiatives that contributed to the extensi…

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French Foreign Legion
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The French Foreign Legion is a corps of the French Army created to allow foreign nationals into French service. The Legi…

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On This Day

10 events
2011
Friendly_fire
In a friendly-fire incident, a skirmish occurred between U.S.-led NATO forces and Pakistani security forces at two military checkposts along the Afghanistan–Pakistan border.
2011
NASA
NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory mission from Cape Canaveral, carrying the Curiosity rover on board.
2008
2008_Mumbai_attacks
A coordinated group of shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai began, ultimately killing 175 people and wounding more than 300 others.
1983
Brink's
Six robbers broke into a Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport in London and stole £26 million in gold, diamonds and cash.
1977
Southern_Television_broadcast_interruption
A speaker claiming to represent the "Intergalactic Association" interrupted a broadcast of Southern Television in South East England.
1942
Casablanca_(film)
Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premiered at the Hollywood Theatre in New York City to coincide with the Allied invasion of French North Africa and the capture of Casablanca.
1942
World_War_II
World War II: Josip Broz Tito and the Yugoslav Partisans convened the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
1942
1942_Phoenix_Thanksgiving_Day_riot
A riot involving infantrymen, military police, and local law enforcement officers killed three people in Phoenix, Arizona.
1940
Iron_Guard
The Iron Guard killed 64 political detainees at a penitentiary near Bucharest and followed up with several high-profile assassinations, including that of former Romanian prime minister Nicolae Iorga.
1939
Red_Army
The Soviet Red Army shelled the village of Mainila and then claimed that the fire originated from Finland, giving them a casus belli to launch the Winter War a few days later.

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