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Watts family murders
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Watts family murders

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In the early hours of August 13, 2018, in Frederick, Colorado, Christopher Lee Watts murdered his pregnant wife Shanann (34) by strangulation, and their two children Bella (4) and Celeste (3) by suffocation. He buried Shanann in a shallow grave near an oil-storage facility, and forced his children's bodies into crude o…

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Hope Hicks
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Hope Charlotte Hicks is an American public relations executive and political advisor best known for her roles in the fir…

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Sean Conley
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Sean Patrick Conley is an American physician and United States Navy officer who served as the physician to the president…

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2013
2013_Lampedusa_migrant_shipwreck
A boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, resulting in more than 360 deaths.
2008
Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, establishing the Troubled Asset Relief Program, commonly referred to as a bailout of the U.S. financial system, was enacted.
2003
Siegfried_&_Roy
Roy Horn of the American entertainment duo Siegfried & Roy (both pictured) was mauled by a tiger during a performance at the Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip.
1992
Sinéad_O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on live television.
1991
Nadine_Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1989
Moisés_Giroldi
Major Moisés Giroldi of the Panama Defense Forces failed in his attempt to overthrow dictator Manuel Noriega.
1981
1981_Irish_hunger_strike
A hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners at HM Prison Maze outside Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended after seven months and ten deaths.
1963
Oswaldo_López_Arellano
Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran president Ramón Villeda Morales in a violent coup, initiating two decades of military rule.
1962
Mercury-Atlas_8
Mercury-Atlas 8, the fifth United States crewed space mission, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying astronaut Wally Schirra (pictured).
1953
Holy_Rosary_Cathedral_(Vancouver)
Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral was dedicated by Archbishop William Mark Duke, fifty-three years after it first opened.

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