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2021-08-18

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Sean Lock
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Sean Lock

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Sean Lock was an English comedian and actor. He began his comedy career as a stand-up comedian. In 2000, Lock won the British Comedy Award, in the category of Best Live Comic, and was nominated for the Perrier Comedy Award. He was a team captain on the Channel 4 comedy panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats from 2005 to 2015, and…

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The Taliban, which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan political a…

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Afghanistan
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Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central…

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On This Day

10 events
2017
Asylum_seeker
Two people were fatally stabbed and eight others wounded by a rejected asylum seeker in an Islamist terrorist attack in Turku, Finland.
2008
Pervez_Musharraf
Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf resigned under pressure from a movement to impeach him.
1983
Hurricane_Alicia
Hurricane Alicia made landfall near Galveston, Texas, causing $3 billion in damage and 21 fatalities.
1966
Vietnam_War
Vietnam War: Members of the 6th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment were surrounded by a much larger Viet Cong unit at the Battle of Long Tan (helicopter pictured), but held them off for several hours until reinforcements arrived.
1964
Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany
East German Communist Party member Hildegard Trabant was killed while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall.
1948
Fifth_Test,_1948_Ashes_series
Australia won the fifth Test of the 1948 Ashes series, becoming the first Test cricket team to go undefeated in England, earning them the nickname "The Invincibles".
1945
World_War_II
World War II: Amid a Soviet invasion of Japanese-held Sakhalin, Japanese police massacred 18 Koreans in Kamishisuka.
1940
World_War_II
Second World War: During the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe made an all-out effort to destroy RAF Fighter Command, with both sides combined losing more aircraft on this day than at any other point during the campaign.
1937
Blackwater_Fire_of_1937
A lightning strike started the Blackwater Fire (pictured) in Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, consuming 1,700 acres (7 km2) of old-growth forest and killing 15 firefighters.
1920
Nineteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage in the country.

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