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2021-01-23

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Larry King
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Larry King

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Larry King was an American TV and radio host, author, and spokesman. He was a WMBM radio interviewer in the Miami area in the 1950s and 1960s. Beginning in 1978, King gained national prominence as host of The Larry King Show, an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard over the Mutual Broadcasting System. From …

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Hank Aaron
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Henry Louis Aaron, nicknamed "Hammer" or "Hammerin' Hank", was an American professional baseball right fielder who playe…

Joe Biden
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Joe Biden
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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who was the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. …

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On This Day

10 events
2003
NASA
The final signal was detected from the NASA space probe Pioneer 10, then about 12 billion kilometres (7.5 billion miles) from Earth.
2002
Daniel_Pearl
American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and later murdered by al-Qaeda agents in Karachi, Pakistan.
2001
2001_Tiananmen_Square_self-immolation_incident
Five people attempted to set themselves on fire in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, an act that many later claimed to have been staged by the Chinese Communist Party to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
1997
Madeleine_Albright
Madeleine Albright was sworn in as the first female United States Secretary of State, becoming the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government at that time.
1993
NCSA_Mosaic
The first version of Mosaic, created by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, was released, becoming the first popular web browser.
1968
USS_Pueblo_(AGER-2)
USS Pueblo was seized by North Korean forces, who claimed that it had violated their territorial waters while spying.
1957
Walter_Frederick_Morrison
American inventor Fred Morrison sold the rights to his "flying disc" to the Wham-O toy company, who later renamed it the "Frisbee"
1942
World_War_II
World War II: Japan began an invasion of the island of New Britain in the Australian Territory of New Guinea.
1915
John_Chilembwe
Rebels led by John Chilembwe attacked local plantation owners, beginning an uprising regarded as a key moment in the history of Malawi.
1909
Tottenham_Outrage
Two men committed an armed robbery in Tottenham, London, and led police on a two-hour chase, partially by tram, that ended in the perpetrators' suicides.

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