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Power Rangers (film)
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Power Rangers (film)

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Power Rangers is a 2017 American superhero film based on the franchise of the same name. It was directed by Dean Israelite from a screenplay by John Gatins and a story conceived by the writing teams of Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless, and Michele and Kieran Mulroney. It is the third installment in the Power Rangers film…

Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)
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Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)
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Beauty and the Beast is a 2017 American musical romantic fantasy film. It is a live-action remake of the 1991 Disney ani…

Ava Gardner
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Ava Gardner
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Ava Lavinia Gardner was an American actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She first signed a contract with Metro-G…

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On This Day

10 events
2010
Torpedo
An explosion, allegedly caused by a North Korean torpedo, sank the South Korean warship ROKS Cheonan near Baengnyeongdo in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 sailors.
2009
Tesla_Model_S
A prototype of the Tesla Model S, one of the most influential electric cars in history, was unveiled.
1999
Jack_Kevorkian
A jury began deliberations in the trial of Jack Kevorkian, an American practitioner of physician-assisted suicide who was charged with murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.
1997
Rancho_Santa_Fe,_California
Police in Rancho Santa Fe, California, discovered the bodies of 39 members of the religious group Heaven's Gate who had died in an apparent cult suicide.
1975
Biological_Weapons_Convention
The Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons, entered into force.
1953
Jonas_Salk
Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children.
1942
SS_Dixie_Arrow
The American tanker Dixie Arrow is torpedoed and sunk off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, by the German U-boat U-71.
1939
Francoist_Spain
Nationalist forces began their final offensive of the Spanish Civil War, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.
1917
World_War_I
First World War: Attempting to advance into Palestine, the British were defeated by Ottoman troops at the First Battle of Gaza.
1913
First_Balkan_War
First Balkan War: After a five-month siege, Bulgarian and Serbian forces (artillery pictured) captured the Ottoman city of Adrianople.

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