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2018-04-07

2018-04-07

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A Quiet Place
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A Quiet Place

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A Quiet Place is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror film directed by John Krasinski, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Scott Beck and Bryan Woods based on a story the latter two conceived. The movie tells the story of a mother and father (Krasinski) who struggle to survive and raise their children in a post-apoca…

Patrick Reed
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Patrick Reed
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Patrick Nathaniel Reed is an American professional golfer. He has nine tournament victories on the PGA Tour, including o…

Molyneux's problem
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Molyneux's problem
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Molyneux's problem is a thought experiment in philosophy concerning immediate recovery from blindness. It was first form…

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On This Day

10 events
2017
2017_Stockholm_truck_attack
A hijacker deliberately drove a truck into crowds along Drottninggatan in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people.
2001
NASA
NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey (artist's conception pictured), the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, launched from Cape Canaveral.
1995
First_Chechen_War
First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops began a massacre of hundreds of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
1994
FedEx
A FedEx employee tried to hijack Federal Express Flight 705 in a failed suicide attempt.
1994
Rwandan_Civil_War
Rwandan Civil War: The Rwandan genocide began a few hours after the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana, with hundreds of thousands killed in the following 100 days.
1979
Uganda–Tanzania_War
Uganda–Tanzania War: Tanzanian forces defeated Ugandan troops and their Libyan allies at the Battle of Entebbe, opening the way for an advance on the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
1972
Viet_Cong
Communist forces overran the South Vietnamese town of Lộc Ninh.
1964
Bruce_W._Klunder
American Presbyterian minister Bruce W. Klunder was killed by a bulldozer while protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio.
1949
Rodgers_and_Hammerstein
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based on Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener, opened on Broadway.
1948
United_Nations
The United Nations established the World Health Organization to act as a coordinating authority on international public health.

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