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Vicki Draves
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Vicki Draves

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Victoria Manalo Draves was a Filipino American competitive diver who won gold medals in both platform and springboard diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Draves became the first woman to be awarded gold medals for both the ten-meter platform and the three-meter springboard. In a pioneering achievement, she wa…

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
2009
Taurus_09
The last vessels involved in Taurus 09, a Royal Navy training deployment covering 20,400 miles (32,800 km), returned to HMNB Devonport, England.
2005
Maaouya_Ould_Sid'Ahmed_Taya
Mauritanian president Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup while he attended the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
1997
Sky_Tower_(Auckland)
The Sky Tower, then the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
1977
Tandy_Corporation
Tandy Corporation announced the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
1975
Boeing_707
A privately chartered Boeing 707 (aircraft involved pictured) struck a mountain peak and crashed near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
1971
Fighting_Dinosaurs
Fighting Dinosaurs, a fossil specimen featuring a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops in combat, was unearthed in the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia.
1940
World_War_II
World War II: Italian forces began a conquest of British Somaliland, capturing the region in 16 days.
1936
African_Americans
African-American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination at the games.
1929
Jiddu_Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti (pictured), believed by some Theosophists to be a likely candidate for the messianic "World Teacher", dissolved the Order of the Star, the organisation established to support him.
1913
Wheatland,_California
An agricultural workers' strike in Wheatland degenerated into a riot, becoming one of the first major farm-labor confrontations in California.

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