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2020-04-25

2020-04-25

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Kim Jong Un
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Kim Jong Un

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Kim Jong Un is a North Korean politician who serves as both the general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and the president of the State Affairs Commission. A member of the Kim family, he is the third supreme leader and dictator of North Korea, as well as the fifth child of Kim Jong Il, his predecessor as …

Tasuku Honjo
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Tasuku Honjo
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Tasuku Honjo is a Japanese physician-scientist and immunologist. He won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine …

2020 NFL draft
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2020 NFL draft
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The 2020 NFL draft was the 85th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible pla…

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On This Day

10 events
2015
April_2015_Nepal_earthquake
Nepal was struck by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake, killing more than 8,000 people.
1990
Violeta_Chamorro
Violeta Chamorro took office as President of Nicaragua, becoming the first female head of state in the Americas to have been elected in her own right.
1983
The_Jakarta_Post
The first issue of The Jakarta Post was published in Indonesia.
1982
Margaret_Thatcher
British prime minister Margaret Thatcher told journalists in Downing Street to "rejoice" upon hearing news of the successful recapture of South Georgia from Argentine forces in the Falklands War.
1964
Fun_Lounge_police_raid
109 individuals were arrested in a police raid on a gay bar near Chicago.
1960
United_States_Navy
The U.S. Navy submarine Triton (pictured) completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the world.
1946
Naperville_train_disaster
Two passenger trains collided in Naperville, Illinois, leaving 45 people dead and some 125 injured.
1932
Gladys_Elinor_Watkins
Gladys Elinor Watkins consecrated the carillon of the National War Memorial in Wellington, New Zealand (dedication pictured).
1920
San_Remo_conference
At the San Remo conference, the principal Allies of World War I passed a resolution allocating League of Nations mandates for the administration of former Ottoman territories in the Middle East.
1920
1920_blind_march
A march by blind people from across the United Kingdom to protest at poor working conditions ended at Trafalgar Square, London.

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