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The Adventures of Tintin
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The Adventures of Tintin

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The Adventures of Tintin is a series of 24 comic albums created by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The series was one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. By 2007, a century after Hergé's birth, Tintin had been published in more than 70 languages with sales of more than 200 million copies, and had been ad…

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is a 2016 American epic space opera film directed by Gareth Edwards and written by Chris We…

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Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that employs 3D head-mounted displays and pose tracking to give the user …

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On This Day

10 events
1973
Progress_Party_(Norway)
The Progress Party was founded in a movie theater in Oslo, Norway.
1968
BOAC_Flight_712
BOAC Flight 712 experienced an engine fire shortly after take-off from London Heathrow, leading to the deaths of five people on board, including flight attendant Jane Harrison, who was posthumously awarded a George Cross for heroism.
1961
MV_Dara
A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf killed 238 people.
1959
Computer_science
A team of computer scientists and others met to discuss the creation of a common business-oriented programming language, which became COBOL.
1943
Otto_and_Elise_Hampel
Otto and Elise Hampel were executed in Berlin for performing acts of resistance against Nazism.
1942
World_War_II
World War II: The United States Army Air Forces flew its first mission from India over the Hump (the eastern end of the Himalayas) to deliver materiel to China.
1933
Western_Australia
The Australian state of Western Australia voted to secede from the federation, but efforts to implement the result proved to be unsuccessful.
1917
World_War_I
World War I: German naval officer Wilhelm Werner murdered 19 captured crew members of the British cargo ship Torrington by submerging U-55 when they were on deck.
1911
Winsor_McCay
American cartoonist Winsor McCay released the silent short film Little Nemo (featured), one of the earliest animated films.
1904
Midtown_Manhattan
Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan was renamed Times Square after the New York Times building.

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