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Squid Game
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Squid Game

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Squid Game is a South Korean dystopian survival thriller drama television series created, written, and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk for Netflix. The series revolves around a secret contest where 456 players, all of whom are in deep financial hardship, risk their lives to play a series of children's games that result in …

The Guilty (2021 film)
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The Guilty (2021 film)
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The Guilty is a 2021 American crime thriller film directed and produced by Antoine Fuqua, from a screenplay by Nic Pizzo…

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On This Day

10 events
2013
2013_Lampedusa_migrant_shipwreck
A boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, resulting in more than 360 deaths.
2008
Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, establishing the Troubled Asset Relief Program, commonly referred to as a bailout of the U.S. financial system, was enacted.
2003
Siegfried_&_Roy
Roy Horn of the American entertainment duo Siegfried & Roy (both pictured) was mauled by a tiger during a performance at the Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip.
1992
Sinéad_O'Connor
Sinéad O'Connor tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on live television.
1991
Nadine_Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1989
Moisés_Giroldi
Major Moisés Giroldi of the Panama Defense Forces failed in his attempt to overthrow dictator Manuel Noriega.
1981
1981_Irish_hunger_strike
A hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners at HM Prison Maze outside Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended after seven months and ten deaths.
1963
Oswaldo_López_Arellano
Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran president Ramón Villeda Morales in a violent coup, initiating two decades of military rule.
1962
Mercury-Atlas_8
Mercury-Atlas 8, the fifth United States crewed space mission, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying astronaut Wally Schirra (pictured).
1953
Holy_Rosary_Cathedral_(Vancouver)
Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral was dedicated by Archbishop William Mark Duke, fifty-three years after it first opened.

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