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Bird Box is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror thriller film directed by Susanne Bier and written by Eric Heisserer…

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Jennifer Ann McCarthy-Wahlberg is an American actress, model, television personality, and anti-vaccine activist. She beg…

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On This Day

10 events
2019
The NASA space probe New Horizons flew by the trans-Neptunian object Arrokoth, making it the farthest object visited by a spacecraft.
2011
A suicide bombing took place outside a Coptic Orthodox Church in Alexandria, Egypt, following a New Year service, killing 23 people.
2010
A suicide bomber killed 105 spectators at a volleyball game in the Lakki Marwat District of Pakistan.
2007
Adam Air Flight 574 crashed into the sea off Polewali, Indonesia, killing all 102 people on board, when the pilots inadvertently disconnected the autopilot.
1998
Argentinian physicist Juan Maldacena published a landmark paper initiating the study of AdS/CFT correspondence, which links string theory and quantum gravity.
1995
The World Trade Organization, the international organization designed to supervise and liberalize international trade, came into being, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
1994
The revolutionary leftist Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiated twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
1978
Air India Flight 855 (aircraft pictured) crashed into the Arabian Sea seconds after take-off, killing all 213 people.
1965
The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, which later helped the country become a republic, was founded.
1960
Three men were killed and two wounded in a mass shooting at a public house in Sheffield, England.

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