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Paul Ritter
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Paul Ritter

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Simon Paul Adams, known professionally as Paul Ritter, was an English actor. He had roles in films including Son of Rambow (2007), Quantum of Solace (2008), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), The Eagle (2011), and Operation Mincemeat (2021), as well as television programmes including Friday Night Dinner (20…

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Impossible color
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Impossible colors are colors that do not appear in ordinary visual functioning. Different color theories suggest differe…

Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understate…

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On This Day

10 events
2012
National_Movement_for_the_Liberation_of_Azawad
The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad unilaterally declared the region of Azawad independent from Mali.
2010
Naxalite–Maoist_insurgency
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency: Insurgents from the Communist Party of India (Maoist) ambushed a Central Reserve Police Force convoy in Dantewada district, India, killing 76 officers.
2009
2009_L'Aquila_earthquake
An earthquake measuring 6.3 Mw struck near L'Aquila in the central Italian region of Abruzzo, killing 308 people and leaving more than 66,000 homeless.
2009
April_2009_Moldovan_parliamentary_election_protests
Mass protests began across Moldova against the results of the parliamentary election.
2005
Kurds
Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani (pictured) was elected by the National Assembly as the first non-Arab president of Iraq.
2004
Rolandas_Paksas
Lithuanian president Rolandas Paksas became the first European head of state to be removed from office by impeachment.
1994
Juvénal_Habyarimana
The aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down in Kigali; the event became the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide.
1974
ABBA
ABBA (pictured) won the Eurovision Song Contest representing Sweden with the song "Waterloo".
1970
California_Highway_Patrol
Four California Highway Patrol officers were killed in a shootout following a traffic stop in Newhall, north of Los Angeles.
1945
World_War_II
Second World War: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville Island concluded with a decisive victory for the Australian Army's 7th Brigade against the Imperial Japanese Army's 6th Division.

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