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2021-08-08

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Neeraj Chopra
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Neeraj Chopra

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Lieutenant Colonel Neeraj Chopra is an Indian javelin thrower. He has won gold medals at the Olympic Games, World Championships and Asian Games. Chopra has won the Diamond League once. He won the Olympic gold medal in 2020 and became the first Asian javelin thrower to do so. He became the first Asian to win a gold meda…

2020 Summer Olympics
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2020 Summer Olympics
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The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and officially branded as Tokyo 2020, were an inter…

The Suicide Squad (film)
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The Suicide Squad (film)
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The Suicide Squad is a 2021 American superhero film based on the DC Comics team Suicide Squad. Written and directed by J…

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On This Day

10 events
2014
World_Health_Organization
The World Health Organization declared the Western African Ebola epidemic, which began in December 2013, to be a public health emergency of international concern.
2010
2010_Gansu_mudslide
A massive mudslide in the Chinese province of Gansu killed at least 1,471 people.
2009
2009_Hudson_River_mid-air_collision
Nine people died when a tour helicopter and a small private airplane collided over the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey.
2008
EuroCity
A EuroCity train en route to Prague struck a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the track near Studénka station and derailed, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.
1998
Mazar-i-Sharif
The Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, was raided by Taliban leading to the death of 10 Iranian diplomats and an Iranian journalist.
1991
Hudson_Volcano
Hudson Volcano in Chile began to erupt, depositing volcanic ash over 150,000 square kilometres (58,000 sq mi).
1991
Warsaw_radio_mast
The Warsaw radio mast (pictured), then the tallest structure ever built, at 646.38 metres (2,120.7 ft), collapsed due to an error in exchanging the guys on the highest telecommunications equipment of the mast.
1988
Tropical_Storm_Beryl_(1988)
Tropical Storm Beryl formed over southeastern Louisiana, making it one of the few tropical cyclones to form over land.
1988
8888_Uprising
A series of marches, demonstrations, protests, and riots, which became known as the 8888 Uprising, began against the one-party state of the Burma Socialist Programme Party.
1969
Zebra_crossing
At a zebra crossing (pictured) on Abbey Road in London, Iain Macmillan took the photograph that was used for the cover of the Beatles' album Abbey Road.

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