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King's Champion
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King's Champion

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The Honourable The King's Champion is an honorary and hereditary office in the Royal Household of the British sovereign. The champion's original role at the coronation of a British monarch was to challenge anyone who contested the new monarch's entitlement to the throne to trial by combat. Although this function was la…

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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…

2017–18 UEFA Champions League
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2017–18 UEFA Champions League
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The 2017–18 UEFA Champions League was the 63rd season of Europe's premier club football tournament organised by UEFA, an…

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On This Day

10 events
2006
International_Astronomical_Union
The International Astronomical Union passed a resolution redefining the term planet and classifying Pluto as a dwarf planet.
1992
Hurricane_Andrew
Hurricane Andrew, the third-most intense Category 5 cyclone to impact the United States in the 20th century, made landfall in southern Florida.
1966
Cultural_Revolution
Cultural Revolution: Red Guards vandalised the Jokhang (depicted), the holiest Buddhist temple in Tibet.
1963
Buddhist_crisis
Buddhist crisis: The U.S. State Department ordered Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (pictured) to encourage South Vietnamese Army officers to oust Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not willingly remove Ngo Dinh Nhu from his unofficial position of power.
1954
Getúlio_Vargas
In the midst of a political crisis, Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas fatally shot himself in the Catete Palace in Rio de Janeiro.
1942
World_War_II
World War II: At the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, bombers from the U.S. aircraft carrier Saratoga sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō near Santa Isabel Island, contributing to an Allied victory.
1941
Adolf_Hitler
Adolf Hitler ordered the suspension of the T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and disabled, although killings continued in secret for the remainder of World War II.
1921
Royal_Navy
The Royal Navy's R.38, the world's largest airship at the time, was destroyed by a structural failure over Hull, killing 44 of the 49 crew aboard.
1914
Battle_of_Cer
The Battle of Cer ended with the first Allied victory of World War I.
1889
1888–89_New_Zealand_Native_football_team
The New Zealand Native football team, predominantly comprising Māori players, concluded their 107-game tour, the longest in rugby union history.

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