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2018-11-10

2018-11-10

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Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu
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Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu

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Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu was a Romanian engineer who was one of the first women to obtain a degree in engineering. She was born in the Romanian town of Galați but qualified in Berlin. During World War I she managed a hospital in Romania.

Freddie Mercury
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Freddie Mercury
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Freddie Mercury was a British singer and songwriter who achieved global fame as the lead vocalist and pianist of the roc…

Robert the Bruce
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Robert the Bruce
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Robert I, popularly known as Robert the Bruce, was King of Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329. Robert led Scotland …

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On This Day

10 events
2020
Land_mines_in_the_Falkland_Islands
The British government announced that it had removed the last land mine from the Falkland Islands, laid by Argentine forces during the 1982 Falklands War.
2009
Daecheong_incident
A skirmish occurred between South Korean and North Korean naval ships off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
2007
Ibero-American_Summit
At the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, King Juan Carlos I of Spain asked Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez "Why don't you shut up?" after Chávez repeatedly interrupted a speech by Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
2006
Nadarajah_Raviraj
Nadarajah Raviraj, a prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer, was assassinated in Colombo.
1995
Ken_Saro-Wiwa
Writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People were executed by the Nigerian military regime led by Sani Abacha.
1975
MPLA
In Angola, the MPLA decisively defeated the FNLA in the Battle of Quifangondo, while Portugal simultaneously withdrew all its colonial and military personnel from Luanda.
1975
SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald
SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior, claiming all 29 of her crew's lives.
1969
Sesame_Street
The children's television series Sesame Street premiered in the United States.
1945
Indonesian_National_Revolution
Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby on 30 October, British forces retaliated by attacking Surabaya (present-day logo depicted).
1940
1940_Vrancea_earthquake
An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw struck the Vrancea region of Romania.

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