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Joseph William Frazier was an American professional boxer who competed from 1965 to 1981. Nicknamed "Smokin'", he was kn…

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Lucas "Luke" Cage, born Carl Lucas and also known as Power Man, is a superhero appearing in American comic books publish…

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On This Day

10 events
2018
The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
2006
A gunman killed five Amish girls before committing suicide in a one-room schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.
2005
Typhoon Longwang made landfall in China as the deadliest tropical cyclone in that year to impact the country.
1990
A hijacked airliner collided with two other planes while attempting to land at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China, killing 128 and injuring 71.
1971
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was re-elected unopposed as President of South Vietnam.
1967
Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1942
Second World War: HMS Curacoa (pictured) was accidentally rammed and sunk by RMS Queen Mary while escorting the liner to provide protection from submarine attacks.
1913
The Shubert Theatre opened on Broadway with a production of Hamlet.
1879
Qing China signed the Treaty of Livadia with the Russian Empire, but the terms were so unfavorable that the Chinese government refused to ratify the treaty.
1835
Mexican dragoons dispatched to disarm settlers at Gonzales in Mexican Texas encountered stiff resistance from a Texian militia at the Battle of Gonzales, the first armed engagement of the Texas Revolution.

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