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2021-01-27

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Cloris Leachman
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Cloris Leachman

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Cloris Leachman was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned nearly eight decades. She received many accolades including 22 Primetime Emmy nominations and won eight, tying Julia Louis-Dreyfus for the most acting Emmy Awards ever awarded to a performer. Leachman also won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and…

Melvin Capital
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Melvin Capital
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Melvin Capital Management was an American investment management firm based in New York City. It was founded in 2014 by G…

Elliot Page
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Elliot Page
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Elliot Page is a Canadian actor, producer, and activist. He is known for his leading roles across Canadian and American …

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On This Day

10 events
2011
Arab_Spring
Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution began as more than 16,000 protesters demonstrated in Sanaa to demand governmental changes.
2011
H1504+65
Astronomers documented H1504+65, a white dwarf in Ursa Minor (chart pictured) with the hottest surface temperature known at the time, at 200,000 kelvins (360,000 °F).
2010
Porfirio_Lobo_Sosa
Porfirio Lobo Sosa became the new president of Honduras, ending a constitutional crisis that had begun in 2009 when Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed from office.
2003
National_Recording_Registry
The first selections for the United States National Recording Registry were announced by the Library of Congress.
1996
Mahamane_Ousmane
Mahamane Ousmane, the first democratically elected president of Niger, was deposed by Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in a military coup d'état.
1980
Iran_hostage_crisis
Six American diplomats who had evaded capture in the Iran hostage crisis escaped with the help of Canadian government officials to Zürich, Switzerland.
1967
Apollo_1
A fire during a launch simulation for the Apollo 1 mission at Cape Kennedy killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee.
1965
Trần_Văn_Hương
South Vietnamese prime minister Trần Văn Hương was removed by the military junta of Nguyễn Khánh.
1945
Red_Army
The Soviet Red Army liberated about 7,000 prisoners left behind by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp.
1927
Bundaberg_tragedy
A contaminated diphtheria vaccine was used in an Australian immunisation program, leading to the deaths of twelve children and the suspension of immunisation programs in several countries.

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