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Dry county
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Dry county

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In the United States, a dry county is a county whose local government forbids the sale of any kind of alcoholic beverages. Some prohibit off-premises sale, some prohibit on-premises sale, and some prohibit both. The vast majority of counties now permit the sale of alcohol in at least some circumstances, but some dry co…

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Gauss–Seidel method
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In numerical linear algebra, the Gauss–Seidel method, also known as the Liebmann method or the method of successive disp…

2017 Westminster attack
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2017 Westminster attack
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On 22 March 2017, a terrorist attack took place outside the Palace of Westminster in London, seat of the British Parliam…

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On This Day

10 events
2005
Texas_City_refinery_explosion
A fire and explosion at an oil refinery in Texas City, the third-largest in the United States, killed 15 workers.
1996
Lee_Teng-hui
Lee Teng-hui (pictured) was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan.
1994
Aeroflot_Flight_593
Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Russia's Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 75 people on board, after the pilot's 15-year-old son unknowingly disabled the autopilot while seated at the controls.
1993
Kowloon_Walled_City
The demolition of Kowloon Walled City (pictured), a densely crowded slum in Hong Kong, began.
1991
Sierra_Leone_Civil_War
The Sierra Leone Civil War began with the invasion of the Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, in an attempt to overthrow President Joseph Saidu Momoh.
1989
Cold_fusion
Two researchers announced the discovery of cold fusion, a claim that was later discredited.
1977
David_Frost
British journalist David Frost began a series of interviews with former U.S. president Richard Nixon, starting with the Watergate scandal.
1933
Nazi_Party
The Nazi Party took the first step in the Gleichschaltung process by having the Enabling Act passed, giving the government the right to make laws without the involvement of the Reichstag.
1931
Bhagat_Singh
Bhagat Singh (pictured), one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement, and two others were executed by the British authorities for their murder of a police officer.
1919
Benito_Mussolini
Benito Mussolini and his supporters founded the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the predecessor of the National Fascist Party.

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