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Emmanuel Macron
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Emmanuel Macron

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Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron is a French politician who has served as President of France and Co-Prince of Andorra since 2017. He served as Minister of Economics and Finance under President François Hollande from 2014 to 2016. He has been a member of Renaissance since founding the party in 2016.

Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
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Baahubali 2: The Conclusion
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Baahubali 2: The Conclusion is a 2017 Indian Telugu-language epic action film directed by S. S. Rajamouli, who co-wrote …

Gennady Golovkin
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Gennady Golovkin
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Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin, often known by his nickname "GGG" or "Triple G", is a Kazakhstani former professional box…

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On This Day

10 events
2010
Neanderthal
A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published, demonstrating that today's humans have Neanderthal ancestors.
2009
Napier,_New_Zealand
Police in Napier, New Zealand, began a 40-hour siege of the home of a former New Zealand Army member who had shot at officers during the routine execution of a search warrant.
1999
Kosovo_War
Kosovo War: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
1960
Cold_War
Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union was holding American pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose spy plane had been shot down six days earlier.
1954
Dungannon
A convoy of circus wagons carrying lions, horses, ponies and an ass lost control and overturned into some shop fronts in Dungannon, Northern Ireland.
1946
Masaru_Ibuka
Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications corporation Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later renamed Sony.
1940
Norway_Debate
A three-day debate began in the House of Commons that resulted in British prime minister Neville Chamberlain being replaced by Winston Churchill (pictured).
1937
Fleischer_Studios
Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City went on strike in the animation industry's first major labor strike.
1931
New_York_City_Police_Department
New York City police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with Francis Crowley, witnessed by 15,000 bystanders, before he finally surrendered.
1895
Aleksandr_Popov_(physicist)
Alexander Stepanovich Popov presented his lightning detector, one of the first radio receivers in the world, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society.

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