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Junko Tabei
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Junko Tabei

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Junko Tabei was a Japanese mountaineer, author and teacher. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent.

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Anand Kumar
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Anand Kumar is an Indian mathematics educator, best known for his Super 30 program, which he started in Patna, Bihar in …

The Big Easy (film)
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The Big Easy (film)
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The Big Easy is a 1986 American neo-noir romantic thriller film directed by Jim McBride and written by Daniel Petrie Jr.…

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On This Day

10 events
2014
NASA
The NASA spacecraft MAVEN entered into orbit around Mars to study the planet's atmosphere.
2013
Insurgency_in_Khyber_Pakhtunkhwa
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, was attacked by two suicide bombers who killed 127 people.
2003
Dolphin_(emulator)
Dolphin, the first emulator for the GameCube that could run commercial video games, was released.
1994
Nordhordland_Bridge
The Nordhordland Bridge, crossing Salhusfjorden between Klauvaneset and Flatøy in Vestland, and Norway's second-longest bridge, officially opened.
1993
Tugboat
A tugboat towing a barge collided with a rail bridge in Mobile, Alabama, U.S., deforming the tracks and causing the derailment of a passenger train eight minutes later, which killed 47 people and injured an additional 103.
1979
Vela_(satellite)
An American Vela satellite detected an unidentified flash of light near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
1975
Sara_Jane_Moore
Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford, but failed due to unfamiliarity with her weapon.
1957
François_Duvalier
François Duvalier (pictured), nicknamed Papa Doc, was elected President of Haiti as a populist before consolidating power and ruling as a dictator for the rest of his life.
1948
Gail_Halvorsen
Led by Gail Halvorsen, the United States Air Force began Operation "Little Vittles", delivering candy to children as part of the Berlin Airlift.
1939
German–Soviet_military_parade_in_Brest-Litovsk
A joint military parade by the troops of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union took place in Brest-Litovsk to celebrate their partition of Poland.

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