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Sam Shepard
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Sam Shepard

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Samuel Shepard Rogers III was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, author and musician whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. His numerous accolades include the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Drama Desk Award, the PEN/Laura…

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

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Anthony Scaramucci
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Anthony Scaramucci is an American financier and broadcaster who briefly served as the White House communications directo…

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On This Day

10 events
2009
Tel_Aviv_gay_centre_shooting
A shooting at a branch of the Israeli LGBT organization the Aguda in Tel Aviv resulted in two deaths.
2007
I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge
Bridge 9340, carrying Interstate 35W across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, United States, suffered a catastrophic failure and collapsed (aftermath pictured), killing 13 people and injuring 145 others.
2004
Ycuá_Bolaños_supermarket_fire
Nearly 400 people died in a supermarket fire in Asunción, Paraguay, when exits were locked to prevent people from stealing merchandise.
1991
George_H._W._Bush
U.S. president George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev warning against independence from the Soviet Union.
1984
Peat
Commercial peat cutters discovered a preserved bog body, now known as Lindow Man (head pictured), at Lindow Moss in Cheshire, England.
1981
Video_Killed_the_Radio_Star
"Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles became the first music video broadcast on the American cable television network MTV.
1971
The_Concert_for_Bangladesh
The Concert for Bangladesh, a pair of benefit concerts organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar for refugees of the Bangladesh genocide, took place at Madison Square Garden in New York.
1946
Partisan_Congress_riots
Several days of anti-Jewish rioting began in Bratislava, instigated by former Slovak partisans opposed to the restitution of Jewish property after the Holocaust in Slovakia.
1911
Harriet_Quimby
Harriet Quimby became the first woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator certificate.
1892
Jef_Denyn
Jef Denyn hosted the world's first carillon concert at St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium.

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