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Sandford Fleming
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Sandford Fleming

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Sir Sandford Fleming was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, and use of the 24-hour clock as key elements to communicating the accurate time, all of which influenced the cr…

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Normandy landings
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The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasi…

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In HTTP, the 404 response status code indicates that a web client was able to communicate with a server, but the server…

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On This Day

10 events
2020
2019–2020_Spanish_government_formation
After 253 days without an operational government, a second round of investiture votes produced Spain's first coalition government since the Second Republic.
2012
Hot_air_balloon
A hot air balloon flight from Carterton, New Zealand, collided with a power line while landing, causing it to crash and killing all eleven people on board.
2010
Nag_Hammadi
In Nag Hammadi, Egypt, Muslim gunmen opened fire on a crowd of Coptic Christians leaving church after attending Christmas Liturgy, killing eight of them, as well as one Muslim bystander.
1993
History_of_Ghana
The Fourth Republic of Ghana was inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings, the country's former military ruler, as president.
1989
Ruhollah_Khomeini
Representatives of Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini delivered a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, inviting him to consider Islam as an alternative to communism, and predicting the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc.
1989
FA_Cup
In one of the most famous upsets in FA Cup history, Sutton United, a team in the fifth tier of English league football, defeated top-tier Coventry City.
1979
People's_Army_of_Vietnam
The People's Army of Vietnam captured Phnom Penh, marking the end of large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
1978
Iran_and_Red_and_Black_Colonization
An article entitled "Iran and Red and Black Colonization" was published in the newspaper Ettela'at attacking Ruhollah Khomeini, then in exile in Iraq.
1955
Marian_Anderson
Marian Anderson became the first African-American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
1948
Kentucky_Air_National_Guard
Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell, flying in pursuit of an alleged UFO, was killed when his P-51 Mustang crashed near Fort Knox, Kentucky.

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