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한국방송공사
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한국방송공사(韓國放送公社, 영어: Korean Broadcasting System, KBS)는 대한민국을 가시청권으로 하는 지상파 방송사이다. 1927년 2월 16일에 경성방송국으로 창립되었고, 1935년에는 조선방…

유튜브
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유튜브(영어: Youtube)는 구글이 소유한 미국의 소셜 미디어이자 온라인 동영상 공유 플랫폼이다. 유튜브는 2005년 2월 14일 페이팔의 전 직원인 스티브 첸, 채드 헐리, 자베드 카림에 의해 설립되었다. 샌브…

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2019
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2015
Physicists of the LIGO and Virgo projects first observed gravitational waves, the existence of which was predicted by Henri Poincaré in 1905.
2007
Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank received a liquidity support facility from the Bank of England, sparking a bank run—the United Kingdom's first in 150 years.
2003
President Kumba Ialá (pictured) of Guinea-Bissau was deposed in a bloodless military coup.
1992
The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the breakaway Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia to be unconstitutional.
1989
Typhoon Sarah dissipated after causing extensive damage along an erratic path across the Western Pacific, killing 71 in Taiwan, the Philippines, and the Gotō Islands.
1979
Afghan president Nur Muhammad Taraki (pictured) was overthrown and later killed on the orders of Hafizullah Amin, who succeeded him.
1960
At a conference held in Baghdad, the governments of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela founded OPEC to help coordinate their petroleum policies and influence global oil prices.
1943
World War II: Nazi forces began a mass extermination campaign against the civilian residents of around 20 villages on the Greek island of Crete, eventually killing more than 500 men.
1940
Hungarian forces massacred at least 150 ethnic Romanians in Ip, Transylvania, following rumors that Romanians were responsible for the deaths of two soldiers.

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