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Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki. Founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001, Wikipedia has been hosted since 2003 by the Wikimedia Foundation, an American nonprofit organiza…

Timothy Leary
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Timothy Leary
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Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and author known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. Evalua…

Joker (2019 film)
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Joker (2019 film)
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Joker is a 2019 American psychological thriller film directed by Todd Phillips from a screenplay he co-wrote with Scott …

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10 events
2024
Prabowo_Subianto
Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka were sworn in as president and vice president of Indonesia, becoming the oldest and the youngest person to assume respective offices.
2022
2022_Chadian_protests
Protests broke out across Chad after President Mahamat Déby (pictured) declared his intentions to extend his rule by another two years.
2011
Libyan_civil_war_(2011)
First Libyan Civil War: Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed Libyan leader, was captured by rebel forces during the Battle of Sirte, and was killed shortly thereafter.
1991
1991_Uttarkashi_earthquake
An earthquake struck the Indian state of Uttarakhand, killing at least 768 people and destroying thousands of homes.
1986
Aeroflot_Flight_6502
Aeroflot Flight 6502 crashed on approach to Kurumoch Airport in Samara, Russia (then Kuybyshev in the Soviet Union), killing 70 people on board.
1984
Sinking_of_the_Spanish_trawler_Sonia
The Spanish trawler Sonia sank in British waters after a five-hour chase by the Irish Naval Service patrol vessel Aisling, during which almost 600 shots were fired.
1982
1982–83_UEFA_Cup
During a UEFA Cup match between Spartak Moscow and Haarlem, a large number of attendees trying to leave the Central Lenin Stadium resulted in a stampede that caused 66 deaths.
1977
Lynyrd_Skynyrd
Three members of the American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd died when their chartered plane crashed in Gillsburg, Mississippi.
1973
Watergate_scandal
Watergate scandal: Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy William Ruckelshaus resigned after refusing to obey President Richard Nixon's order to have Archibald Cox fired.
1969
SLAC_National_Accelerator_Laboratory
Experimental results from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center were published showing that protons were composed of smaller particles, the first evidence of quarks.

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