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Oskar Fischinger

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Oskar Wilhelm Fischinger was a German-American abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter, notable for creating abstract musical animation many decades before the appearance of computer graphics and music videos. He created special effects for Fritz Lang's 1929 Woman in the Moon, one of the first sci-fi rocket films, an…

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XHamster
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xHamster is a pornographic video sharing and streaming website, based in Limassol, Cyprus. It was founded by Oleg Netepe…

Transformers: The Last Knight
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Transformers: The Last Knight
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Transformers: The Last Knight is a 2017 American science fiction action film based on Hasbro's Transformers toy line. It…

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On This Day

10 events
2022
June_2022_Afghanistan_earthquake
An earthquake registering 6.2 Mw caused the deaths of at least 1,000 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
2009
Washington_Metro
Two Metro trains collided in Washington, D.C., killing nine people and injuring eighty others.
2002
2002_Bou'in-Zahra_earthquake
A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck northwestern Iran, killing at least 230 people and injuring 1,300 others; the official response, perceived to be slow, later caused widespread public anger.
1979
Liberal_Party_(UK)
Former British Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of having a relationship with him.
1966
Buddhism_in_Vietnam
Vietnamese Buddhist activist leader Thích Trí Quang was arrested as the military junta of Nguyễn Cao Kỳ crushed the Buddhist Uprising.
1941
World_War_II
World War II: German minister of foreign affairs Joachim von Ribbentrop presented a declaration of war to the Soviet ambassador Vladimir Dekanozov in Berlin.
1941
World_War_II
World War II: As Axis troops began their invasion of the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian Activist Front started an uprising to liberate Lithuania from Soviet occupation.
1922
Irish_Republican_Army_(1922–1969)
Irish Republican Army gunmen assassinated British member of parliament Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson.
1911
George_V
King George V and Queen Mary (both pictured) were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
1813
War_of_1812
War of 1812: After learning of a forthcoming American attack, Laura Secord walked 20 mi (32 km) from Queenston, Upper Canada, to warn British lieutenant James FitzGibbon (depicted).

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