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David Gest

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David Alan Gest was an American producer and television personality. Gest founded the American Cinema Awards Foundation in 1983. He produced the television special Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration in 2001, which was the last reunion of Michael Jackson and the Jacksons coming almost 17 years after their pre…

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xHamster is a pornographic video sharing and streaming website, based in Limassol, Cyprus. It was founded by Oleg Netepe…

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Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor. Often described as one of the greatest actors in the history of …

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On This Day

10 events
2014
Great_Fire_of_Valparaíso
A fire broke out near Valparaíso, Chile, eventually destroying at least 2,500 homes and leaving approximately 11,000 people homeless (damage pictured).
2013
April_2013_Kidal_attack
Four Chadian soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing by jihadist rebels in Kidal, Mali.
2012
2012_Guinea-Bissau_coup_d'état
The Guinea-Bissau military seized control in a coup amid a presidential election, later handing power to a transitional administration under Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo.
1993
Bosnian_War
Bosnian War: NATO forces began Operation Deny Flight (aircraft pictured) to enforce a no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered by the United Nations Security Council.
1983
Harold_Washington
Harold Washington was elected as the first African-American mayor of Chicago.
1980
Terry_Fox
Canadian athlete Terry Fox embarked on an east-to-west "Marathon of Hope" from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with a prosthetic leg to raise funds for cancer research.
1980
Samuel_Doe
Samuel Doe took control of Liberia in a coup d'état, overthrowing President William Tolbert and ending over 130 years of national democratic presidential succession.
1973
Gravedigger
About 1,700 gravediggers in New York City began a 12-week strike, causing a delay in the burial of roughly 1,400 bodies in the city.
1961
Vostok_1
Aboard Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin performed the first human spaceflight, completing one orbit of Earth in 108 minutes.
1910
SMS_Zrínyi
SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, was launched in Trieste.

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