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Royal Rumble (2021)
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Royal Rumble (2021)

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The 2021 Royal Rumble was a professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It was the 34th annual Royal Rumble and took place on January 31, 2021, from the WWE ThunderDome, hosted at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. The event aired via pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming and featured wrestlers from the promo…

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Dustin Diamond
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Dustin Neil Diamond was an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is best known for portraying Samuel "Screech" Powers…

Myanmar
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Myanmar
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Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also referred to as Burma, is a country in northwest Southe…

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10 events
2021
Tatmadaw
The Burmese military staged a coup d'état that deposed the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking nationwide protests and a civil war.
2012
Egyptian_Premier_League
Following an Egyptian Premier League match in Port Said, Al Masry fans rioted and violently attacked Al Ahly supporters, resulting in 74 deaths.
2009
Jóhanna_Sigurðardóttir
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (pictured) became the first female prime minister of Iceland.
2004
Halftime_show
During the halftime show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, Janet Jackson's breast was exposed by Justin Timberlake in what was later referred to as a "wardrobe malfunction", resulting in an immediate crackdown and widespread debate on perceived indecency in U.S. broadcasting.
2003
Space_Shuttle_Columbia
All seven crew members aboard Space Shuttle Columbia were killed when the orbiter disintegrated over Texas during reentry.
2001
Timor-Leste_Defence_Force
The Timor-Leste Defence Force was established from the erstwhile anti-Indonesian independence movement Falintil.
1979
Ruhollah_Khomeini
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile and soon led the Iranian Revolution to overthrow the Pahlavi dynasty.
1972
Kuala_Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur (pictured), the capital of Malaysia, was granted city status.
1960
Civil_rights_movement
Civil rights movement: Four African-American students staged the first of more than five months of sit-ins at an F. W. Woolworth lunch counter (pictured) in Greensboro, North Carolina, to protest the company's policy of racial segregation.
1957
Felix_Wankel
Invented by German engineer Felix Wankel, the first working prototype of the Wankel rotary engine ran for the first time at the research and development department of NSU Motorenwerke AG.

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