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Merrick Garland

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Merrick Brian Garland is an American lawyer and jurist who served as the 86th United States attorney general from 2021 to 2025. He previously served as a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1997 to 2021. In 2016, President Barack Obama nominated Garland to the U…

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Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United …

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Caroline Herschel
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Caroline Lucretia Herschel was a German astronomer, whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveri…

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On This Day

10 events
2015
Teddy_Sinclair
Natalia Kills and Willy Moon were fired as judges on the second series of The X Factor New Zealand, following public backlash over comments they made to a contestant during the first live show.
2003
Rachel_Corrie
American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israel Defense Forces armored bulldozer in Rafah while protesting the demolition of a Palestinian house.
2001
2001_Shijiazhuang_bombings
A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China, killed 108 people.
1988
Iran–Iraq_War
Iran–Iraq War: Iraqi forces began attacking the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons, killing up to 5,000 people.
1988
Michael_Stone_(loyalist)
Michael Stone, an Ulster loyalist, attacked the funeral of three Provisional IRA members, killing three attendees and injuring at least sixty others.
1984
William_Francis_Buckley
William Buckley, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists.
1968
Vietnam_War
Vietnam War: American soldiers killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Sơn Mỹ village in the Sơn Tịnh District of South Vietnam.
1962
Flying_Tiger_Line_Flight_739
Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a charter flight carrying U.S. and South Vietnamese soldiers, disappeared without a trace, prompting one of the largest searches in the history of the Pacific.
1960
African_Americans
African American civil rights activists in Savannah, Georgia, conducted a sit-in, commencing the Savannah Protest Movement.
1935
Conscription
Conscription was re-introduced in Germany by the Nazi regime, and the German military was renamed the Wehrmacht.

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