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2017-02-22

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HTTP 404

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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 could not provide the requested resource. The server may not have the resource or it may not wish to disclose whether it has the resource. The code is often associated with response reason Not Found …

Buddhas of Bamiyan

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The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two monumental Buddhist reliefs in the Bamiyan Valley of Afghanistan, carved possibly around…

Milo Yiannopoulos

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Milo Yiannopoulos is a British far-right political commentator, whose speeches and writings criticise Islam, feminism, a…

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2019

North_Korean_Embassy_in_Madrid_incident

A group broke into the North Korean embassy in Madrid, Spain, and stole several mobile telephones and digital storage devices.

2012

2012_Buenos_Aires_rail_disaster

A train failed to apply its brakes and crashed through a buffer stop at Once railway station in Buenos Aires, resulting in 51 deaths and more than 700 injuries.

2011

2011_Christchurch_earthquake

An earthquake registering 6.3 ML struck Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 185 people and causing around NZ$40 billion in damage.

2011

2011_Bahraini_uprising

Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people marched in protest in Manama against the deaths of seven people killed by police and army forces during previous protests.

2006

Securitas_depot_robbery

Seven men staged the largest cash robbery in Britain at a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom.

1998

Cherry-throated_tanager

The cherry-throated tanager, a critically endangered bird which had not been definitively sighted in over a century, was rediscovered in Conceição do Castelo, Brazil.

1997

Roslin_Institute

Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announced the existence of Dolly, a female sheep who was the first mammal to have successfully been cloned from an adult cell.

1983

Moose_Murders

The play Moose Murders opened and closed on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, becoming the standard of "awfulness" against which all Broadway failures are judged.

1980

1980_Winter_Olympics

At the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the United States ice hockey team defeated the Soviet team in an unlikely victory that became known as the Miracle on Ice.

1974

Samuel_Byck

Samuel Byck attempted to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate U.S. president Richard Nixon, but he was stopped by police.

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