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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 …

Zodiac Killer
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Zodiac Killer
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The Zodiac is the pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer who murdered at least five people in the San Francisco Bay …

Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian novelist and academic of Yemeni origin. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and mo…

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On This Day

10 events
2023
Palestinian_nationalism
Palestinian nationalist groups launched armed incursions into the Gaza envelope, starting the Gaza war.
2023
Al-Qassam_Brigades
The military wing of the Palestinian nationalist Islamist political organization Hamas massacred people attending an open-air music festival in southern Israel.
2008
2008_TC3
2008 TC3 exploded above the Nubian Desert in Sudan, in the first time that an asteroid impact had been predicted prior to atmospheric entry.
2006
Anna_Politkovskaya
Anna Politkovskaya (pictured), a Russian journalist and human-rights activist, was assassinated in the elevator of her apartment block in Moscow.
1991
Croatian_War_of_Independence
Croatian War of Independence: The Yugoslav People's Army conducted an air strike on Banski Dvori, the official residence of the president of Croatia in Zagreb.
1988
Point_Barrow
Near Point Barrow in Alaska, an Iñupiat hunter discovered three gray whales trapped in pack ice, which resulted in an international effort to free them.
1985
1985_Puerto_Rico_floods
During severe floods in Puerto Rico, about 130 people died as a result of the deadliest single landslide on record in North America.
1944
The_Holocaust
The Holocaust: Sonderkommando work-unit members in Auschwitz concentration camp revolted upon learning that they were due to be killed; although a few managed to escape, most were massacred on the same day.
1916
Georgia_Tech_Yellow_Jackets_football
Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
1914
Pohnpei
Japan captured Pohnpei from Germany, eventually leading to large-scale Japanese immigration to Micronesia.

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