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Glenn Frey
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Glenn Frey

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Glenn Lewis Frey was an American musician. He was a founding member of the rock band Eagles, for whom he was the co-lead singer and frontman, roles he came to share with fellow member Don Henley, with whom he wrote most of Eagles' material. Frey played guitar and keyboards as well as singing lead vocals on songs such a…

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Bruce Steel Kingsbury, VC was an Australian soldier of the Second World War. Serving initially in the Middle East, he la…

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Eagles (band)
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The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971. With five number-one singles, six number-one albums,…

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On This Day

10 events
2012
File_sharing
The Hong Kong–based file-sharing website Megaupload was shut down by the FBI.
2007
Hrant_Dink
Turkish-Armenian journalist and human-rights activist Hrant Dink was assassinated by a Turkish nationalist in Istanbul.
2007
Snowkiting
A four-man team, using only skis and kites, completed a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility, the first people to get there since 1967, and the first to do so on foot.
2006
Antonov_An-24
In the deadliest aviation accident in Slovak history, an Antonov An-24 operated by the Slovak Air Force crashed in northern Hungary, killing 42 of the 43 people on board.
1996
Barge
A tank barge and a tug grounded on a beach in Rhode Island, causing a spill of an estimated 828,000 U.S. gallons (3.13 million litres) of home heating oil.
1977
Iva_Toguri_D'Aquino
Iva Toguri (pictured), convicted of treason for broadcasting Japanese propaganda, was granted a full pardon by U.S. president Gerald Ford.
1975
1975_Kinnaur_earthquake
An earthquake registering 6.8 Ms struck northern Himachal Pradesh in India, causing extensive damage to the region.
1972
L'Aurore_(newspaper_founded_1944)
The French newspaper L'Aurore revealed that the former Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon", had been found to be living in Peru.
1920
American_Civil_Liberties_Union
The American Civil Liberties Union was founded by the directors of the National Civil Liberties Bureau.
1915
World_War_I
World War I: The first major attack of the German bombing campaign against Britain took place when Zeppelins bombed several towns in Norfolk.

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