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2020-08-02

2020-08-02

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Wilford Brimley
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Wilford Brimley

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Anthony Wilford Brimley was an American actor. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and working odd jobs in the 1950s, Brimley started working as an extra and stuntman in Western films in the late 1960s. He became an established character actor in the 1970s and 1980s in films such as The China Syndrome (1979), The Th…

The Umbrella Academy (TV series)
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The Umbrella Academy (TV series)
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The Umbrella Academy is an American superhero comedy drama television series loosely based on the comic book series of t…

Shakuntala Devi
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Shakuntala Devi
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Shakuntala Devi was an Indian mental calculator, astrologer, and writer, popularly known as the "Human Computer". Her ta…

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On This Day

10 events
2007
Raúl_Iturriaga
Raúl Iturriaga, a former deputy director of the Chilean secret police, was captured in Viña del Mar after having been on the run following a kidnapping conviction.
1973
Summerland_disaster
A flash fire killed 50 people at a leisure centre in Douglas, Isle of Man.
1971
The_Who
The English rock band the Who released Who's Next, their only album to top the UK charts.
1947
1947_BSAA_Avro_Lancastrian_Star_Dust_accident
Star Dust, a British South American Airways airliner, crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes; its wreckage was not found until 1998.
1939
Leo_Szilard
Leo Szilard (pictured) penned a letter, signed by Albert Einstein and addressed to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, warning that Germany may develop atomic bombs, leading to the establishment of the Manhattan Project.
1932
California_Institute_of_Technology
At the California Institute of Technology, American physicist Carl David Anderson proved the existence of antimatter with the discovery of the positron, for which he would receive the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1923
Calvin_Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge became the 30th president of the United States after Warren G. Harding suffered a fatal heart attack.
1920
Krishna_Lal_Adhikari
Nepalese author Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing a book about the cultivation of corn alleged to contain attacks on the ruling dynasty.
1916
Austria-Hungary
An explosion, blamed on Austro-Hungarian saboteurs, sank the Italian dreadnought Leonardo da Vinci.
1914
Grand_Quartier_Général_(1914–1919)
The French army's general headquarters was activated in anticipation of war with Germany.

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