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Jessi Combs
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Jessi Combs

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Jessica Combs was an American professional racer, television personality, and metal fabricator. She set a women's land speed class record in 2013 and broke her own record in 2016. She was known as "the fastest woman on four wheels".

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Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari
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Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari is a Saudi Arabian man, who in August 2013 was found to be the heaviest living person, and the …

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Line shaft
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A line shaft or millworks is a power-driven rotating shaft for power transmission within factories and industrial comple…

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10 events
2022
2022_Phoenix_shooting
A mass shooting took place in Phoenix, Arizona, leaving 33 dead and five others injured.
2021
Thomson–East_Coast_Line
The second phase of the Thomson-East Coast MRT line was opened for service.
1993
Galileo_(spacecraft)
The NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 243 Ida and took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid moon (both pictured).
1987
Ryugyong_Hotel
Construction began on the Ryugyong Hotel (pictured) in Pyongyang, the tallest building in North Korea.
1973
Norrmalmstorg_robbery
Swedish police used gas bombs to end a seven-day hostage situation in Stockholm; the hostages had bonded with their captors during the incident, leading to the term Stockholm syndrome.
1963
Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on Washington, calling for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
1955
Emmett_Till
African-American teenager Emmett Till was lynched near Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American civil rights movement.
1950
Althea_Gibson
American tennis player Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to compete at the U.S. National Championships.
1916
Blargies_prison_camp
A confrontation at Blargies prison camp in France led to a charge of mutiny for New Zealand private John Braithwaite, for which he was later executed.
1909
1909_Monterrey_hurricane
The 1909 Monterrey hurricane dissipated; one of the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, it killed an estimated 4,000 people throughout Mexico.

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