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Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Web scraping software may directly access the World Wide Web using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol or a web browser. While web scraping can be done manually by a software user, the term typically refers to auto…

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Zika virus
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Zika virus is an arbovirus which is a member of the virus family Flaviviridae. It is spread by daytime-active Aedes mosq…

ITC Hotels
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ITC Hotels
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ITC Hotels is an Indian hospitality company that operates and manages hotels. It has over 100 hotels and is India's thir…

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On This Day

10 events
1986
Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster
The Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its tenth mission (video featured), killing all seven crew members.
1984
Tropical_Storm_Domoina
Tropical Storm Domoina made landfall in southern Mozambique, causing some of the most severe flooding recorded in the region.
1981
Ronald_Reagan
U.S. president Ronald Reagan lifted price controls from petroleum products, contributing to the 1980s oil glut.
1964
North_American_Sabreliner
Three U.S. Air Force pilots aboard an unarmed T-39 Sabreliner were killed when the aircraft was shot down over Erfurt, East Germany, by a Soviet MiG-19.
1961
Muhanga
In Gitarama, Rwanda, local and other government officials initiated a coup to overthrow the monarchy and establish a republic.
1958
The_Lego_Group
The Lego Group, a Danish toy company, filed a patent in Denmark for the design of Lego bricks.
1941
World_War_II
World War II: About three hours after Thai bombers raided Sisophon, a ceasefire paused hostilities in the Franco-Thai War.
1933
Choudhry_Rahmat_Ali
Choudhry Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet in which he called for the creation of a Muslim state in north-western India that he termed "Pakstan".
1922
Knickerbocker_storm
The largest recorded snowstorm in the history of Washington, D.C., collapsed the Knickerbocker Theatre (damage pictured), killing 98 people.
1916
Manitoba
The province of Manitoba passed a law that first granted some Canadian women the right to vote.

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