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Judy Mikovits

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Judy Anne Mikovits is an American former research scientist who has made discredited medical claims, such as that murine endogenous retroviruses are found in blood samples of most patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). As an outgrowth of these claims, she has engaged in anti-vaccinat…

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Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and entrepreneur known for his leadership of Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, and xAI. Musk has …

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Claire Elise Boucher, known professionally as Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. H…

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On This Day

10 events
2010
Neanderthal
A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published, demonstrating that today's humans have Neanderthal ancestors.
2009
Napier,_New_Zealand
Police in Napier, New Zealand, began a 40-hour siege of the home of a former New Zealand Army member who had shot at officers during the routine execution of a search warrant.
1999
Kosovo_War
Kosovo War: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
1960
Cold_War
Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union was holding American pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose spy plane had been shot down six days earlier.
1954
Dungannon
A convoy of circus wagons carrying lions, horses, ponies and an ass lost control and overturned into some shop fronts in Dungannon, Northern Ireland.
1946
Masaru_Ibuka
Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications corporation Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later renamed Sony.
1940
Norway_Debate
A three-day debate began in the House of Commons that resulted in British prime minister Neville Chamberlain being replaced by Winston Churchill (pictured).
1937
Fleischer_Studios
Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City went on strike in the animation industry's first major labor strike.
1931
New_York_City_Police_Department
New York City police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with Francis Crowley, witnessed by 15,000 bystanders, before he finally surrendered.
1895
Aleksandr_Popov_(physicist)
Alexander Stepanovich Popov presented his lightning detector, one of the first radio receivers in the world, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society.

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