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2016-05-01

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Captain America: Civil War

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Captain America: Civil War is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), and the 13th…

Howard Hughes

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Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American aviator, aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor. He …

XHamster

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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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Game of Thrones season 6

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Payback (2016)

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Sparta

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On This Day

10 events

2016

2016_Fort_McMurray_wildfire

The evacuation of nearly 88,000 people began when a wildfire swept through Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, and burned for another 14 months, becoming the costliest disaster in Canadian history.

1991

Major_League_Baseball

In Major League Baseball, Rickey Henderson broke the record for stolen bases on the same night that Nolan Ryan broke his own record for no-hitters.

1974

Juan_Perón

Argentine president Juan Perón expelled Montoneros from a demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing the group to become a clandestine organization.

1950

Gwendolyn_Brooks

Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

1947

Salvatore_Giuliano

Sicilian separatist Salvatore Giuliano and his gang fired into a crowd of May Day marchers near Piana degli Albanesi, Sicily, killing 11 and wounding 33.

1945

World_War_II

Second World War: British and Indian forces conducted a successful airborne assault on a Japanese artillery battery during the advance to liberate Rangoon, Burma.

1941

Citizen_Kane

Citizen Kane, a widely acclaimed film by actor and director Orson Welles, premiered.

1931

Empire_State_Building

New York City's Empire State Building (pictured), at the time the tallest building in the world, opened.

1900

Dust_explosion

A dust explosion at a coal mine near Scofield, Utah, U.S., killed at least 200 miners.

1885

Chicago_Board_of_Trade_Building

The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opened for business.