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2020-09-01

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Chadwick Boseman

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Chadwick Aaron Boseman was an American actor and playwright. Through his two-decade career, he appeared in a number of projects spanning both blockbuster and independent films, and received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award, in addition to nominat…

Jackie Ormes

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Jackie Ormes was an American cartoonist. She is known as the first African-American woman cartoonist and creator of the …

Tenet

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Tenet is a 2020 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it wit…

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Lists of deaths by year

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Brandy Norwood

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Monica (singer)

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On This Day

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2019

Hurricane_Dorian

Hurricane Dorian, the most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record outside the tropics, made landfall in the Bahamas at Category 5 intensity.

2000

Speakers'_Corner,_Singapore

Speakers' Corner, a free speech area in Hong Lim Park in Singapore, was launched.

1983

Interceptor_aircraft

A Soviet jet interceptor shot down the civilian Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near the island of Sakhalin in the north Pacific, killing all 246 passengers and 23 crew on board.

1973

Irish_Sea

A 76-hour multinational rescue effort in the Irish Sea resulted in the deepest sub rescue in history (pictured).

1972

Cold_War

In a match widely publicized as a Cold War confrontation, American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer became the 11th World Chess Champion with his victory over Soviet Boris Spassky.

1969

Muammar_Gaddafi

Muammar Gaddafi (pictured) led a coup d'état to overthrow King Idris of Libya.

1967

1967_Arab_League_summit

At an Arab League summit, eight nations issued the Khartoum Resolution, declaring that there would be "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, [and] no negotiations with it".

1966

1966_Dayton_race_riot

Rioting erupted in Dayton, Ohio, resulting in one death and the mobilization of the Ohio National Guard.

1953

KARE_(TV)

Channel 11 began television broadcasts in Minneapolis, United States.

1952

Ernest_Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea, which later won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was first published.