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SATA

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SATA is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives. Serial ATA succeeded the earlier Parallel ATA (PATA) standard to become the predominant interface for storage devices.

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Copa América Centenario
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The Copa América Centenario was the commemorative 45th edition of the Copa América, the international men's association …

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Bailee Madison
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Bailee Madison is an American actress and singer. Beginning as a child actress and later expanding to mature roles and h…

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10 events
2025
Prime_Minister_of_Mongolia
Prime minister of Mongolia Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene (pictured) resigned after weeks of protests.
1982
Shlomo_Argov
A failed assassination attempt was made on Shlomo Argov, the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, triggering an Israeli decision to invade Lebanon three days later.
1979
Idi_Amin
Having invaded Uganda and deposed President Idi Amin, Tanzanian forces secured Uganda's western border, ending a seven-month war.
1973
Paris_Air_Show
At the Paris Air Show, a Tupolev Tu-144 broke up in mid-air, killing all six members of its crew and eight bystanders on the ground.
1969
Southeast_Asia_Treaty_Organization
During a SEATO exercise in the South China Sea, a collision between HMAS Melbourne and USS Frank E. Evans resulted in the latter vessel being cut in two and the deaths of 74 personnel.
1968
Radical_feminism
American radical feminist Valerie Solanas shot and wounded visual artist Andy Warhol and two others at Warhol's New York City studio, The Factory.
1963
Buddhist_crisis
Buddhist crisis: South Vietnamese soldiers attacked Buddhist protesters in Huế with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised.
1950
Maurice_Herzog
Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, members of the French Annapurna expedition, became the first climbers to reach the summit of a peak higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level.
1940
Franz_Rademacher
Franz Rademacher, a Nazi official, proposed that the island of Madagascar be made available as a destination for the resettlement of the Jewish population of Europe.
1937
Abdication_of_Edward_VIII
Half a year after abdicating the British throne, Edward, Duke of Windsor, married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a private ceremony in France.

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