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Larry Hillblom
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Larry Hillblom

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Larry Lee Hillblom was an American businessman and, alongside Adrian Dalsey and Robert Lynn, co-founded the shipping company DHL. After his disappearance in 1995, his estate paid $360 million to four impoverished children whom he had fathered as a result of "sex safari" trips in Southeast Asian countries, where he alle…

Republic Day (India)
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Republic Day (India)
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Republic Day is a national holiday in India commemorating the adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of India and …

Kobe Bryant
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Kobe Bryant
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Kobe Bean Bryant was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career wi…

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On This Day

10 events
2020
Sikorsky_S-76
A Sikorsky S-76 helicopter crashed in Calabasas, California, killing all nine people on board, including former basketball player Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna.
2015
2015_Los_Llanos_Air_Base_crash
A jet fighter crashed at Los Llanos Air Base in Albacete, Spain, killing 11 people and injuring 21 others.
2009
Antananarivo
Rioting broke out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that led to the deposal of President Marc Ravalomanana.
2001
2001_Gujarat_earthquake
An earthquake in the Indian state of Gujarat killed at least 20,000 people, injured 167,000 others and destroyed nearly 400,000 homes.
1998
Bill_Clinton
In a nationally televised press conference, U.S. president Bill Clinton denied having "sexual relations" with intern Monica Lewinsky.
1991
Somali_Rebellion
Somali Rebellion: Factions led by the warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid and his rebel group, the United Somali Congress, ousted President Siad Barre.
1974
Turkish_Airlines_Flight_301
Turkish Airlines Flight 301 crashed while taking off from İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport, killing 67 people.
1972
JAT_Flight_367
JAT Flight 367 exploded in mid-air over Czechoslovakia; the only survivor of the 28 on board, flight attendant Vesna Vulović, fell 10,160 m (33,330 ft), setting the record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute.
1966
Disappearance_of_the_Beaumont_children
The three Beaumont children disappeared from a beach in Glenelg, South Australia, resulting in one of the country's largest-ever police investigations.
1952
Cairo_fire
Spontaneous anti-British riots erupted in Cairo following the killings of 50 Egyptian auxiliary police officers the previous day.

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