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2019-02-13

2019-02-13

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Grover
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Grover

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Grover is a blue Muppet character on the PBS/HBO children's television show Sesame Street. Self-described as lovable, cute, and furry, he is a blue monster who rarely uses contractions when he speaks or sings. Grover was originally performed by Frank Oz from his earliest appearances. Eric Jacobson has performed the cha…

ADX Florence
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ADX Florence
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United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility is a United States federal prison for men in Fremont County,…

Valentine's Day
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Valentine's Day
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Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 1…

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On This Day

10 events
2017
Kim_Jong-nam
Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was assassinated using VX nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2012
Vega_(rocket)
The first Vega rocket was launched by the European Space Agency from the Guiana Space Centre.
2010
2010_Pune_bombing
A terrorist bombing at a bakery popular among foreigners in Pune, India, killed 17 people and injured 60 others.
1991
Gulf_War
Gulf War: The United States Air Force dropped two laser-guided "smart bombs" on an air-raid shelter in Baghdad, Iraq, which was believed to be a military command site, killing at least 408 civilians.
1987
Board_of_supervisors
Federal agents began to issue indictments against county-level supervisors in Mississippi after Operation Pretense exposed massive corruption in the state's local governments.
1981
Louisville_sewer_explosions
Explosions caused by the ignition of hexane vapors destroyed more than 13 miles (21 km) of sewer lines in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
1961
Geode
Geode prospectors near Olancha, California, discovered what they claimed to be a 500,000-year-old rock with a 1920s-era spark plug encased within (pictured).
1960
Nashville_sit-ins
African-American college students staged the first of the Nashville sit-ins (sign at protest pictured) at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee, as part of a nonviolent direct-action campaign to end racial segregation in the U.S.
1891
Whitechapel_murders
Frances Coles was killed in the last of eleven unsolved murders of women that took place in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London.
1867
Covering_of_the_Senne
Work began on the covering of the Senne (pictured), burying the polluted main river of Brussels to allow for urban renewal in the centre of the city.

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