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2018-02-09

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2018 Winter Olympics
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2018 Winter Olympics

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The 2018 Winter Olympics, officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as PyeongChang 2018 (평창2018), were an international winter multi-sport event held between 9 and 25 February 2018 in Pyeongchang County, South Korea, with the opening rounds for certain events held on 8 February, a day before the opening …

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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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Elon Musk
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Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and entrepreneur known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, and xAI. Musk has …

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On This Day

10 events
2020
Figure_skating
Japanese figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu won the Four Continents Championships to become the only man to complete a Super Slam.
2016
Bad_Aibling_rail_accident
Two commuter trains collided head-on at Bad Aibling in southeastern Germany, killing 12 people and injuring 85.
2001
USS_Greeneville
The American submarine USS Greeneville collided with the Ehime Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by a high school, sinking the latter ship and killing nine people on board.
1996
GSI_Helmholtz_Centre_for_Heavy_Ion_Research
Researchers at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, first created the chemical element copernicium.
1996
Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army
Breaking a seventeen-month ceasefire, the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a powerful truck bomb in the London Docklands, killing two people and injuring more than a hundred others.
1976
Australian_Defence_Force
The Australian Defence Force (ensign pictured) was formed by the integration of the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Navy, and the Royal Australian Air Force.
1975
Soyuz_17
The spacecraft and crew of the Soviet Soyuz 17 mission returned to earth after 29 days in orbit at the Salyut 4 station.
1971
1971_San_Fernando_earthquake
An earthquake registering 6.6 Mw struck the northern San Fernando Valley near the Los Angeles district of Sylmar, killing 65 people.
1964
Beatlemania
As Beatlemania swept the United States, the Beatles (pictured) made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show before a record-breaking audience, beginning a musical phenomenon known as the British Invasion.
1945
World_War_II
World War II: Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førde Fjord, Norway.

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