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TB Joshua
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TB Joshua

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Temitope Balogun Joshua was a Nigerian charismatic pastor and televangelist. He was the leader and founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), a Christian megachurch that runs the Emmanuel TV television station from Lagos, Nigeria.

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Trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson
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The trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, also known as the "Devil Made Me Do It" case, is the first known court case in the U…

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On This Day

10 events
2021
2021_London,_Ontario,_truck_attack
A man rammed a pickup truck into Muslim Pakistani Canadian pedestrians in Ontario, Canada, killing 4 members of the same family and injuring the family's nine year old son.
2017
Syrian_civil_war
Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (soldiers pictured) opened the Second Battle of Raqqa, the final phase of the Raqqa campaign, capturing the de facto capital of the Islamic State four months later.
1985
Josef_Mengele
The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.
1982
Falklands_War
Falklands War: The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed a British Army helicopter in a friendly-fire incident.
1971
Hughes_Airwest_Flight_706
Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collided with a US Marine Corps jet near Duarte, California, killing 50 people.
1971
Vietnam_War
Vietnam War: Australian forces attacked a heavily fortified North Vietnamese base camp at the Battle of Long Khánh.
1944
World_War_II
World War II: Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious military operation in history, began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France.
1912
Novarupta
The largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century began, forming the volcano Novarupta in the Alaska Peninsula.
1894
Davis_Hanson_Waite
Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered the Colorado state militia to protect and support miners engaged in a five-month strike in Cripple Creek.
1882
Shewa
The Shewan army defeated Gojjame forces at the Battle of Embabo, an event that contributed to the supremacy of Shewa within the Ethiopian Empire.

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