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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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On This Day

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2018
Thirteen-year-old Jayme Closs was kidnapped from her home in Barron, Wisconsin, and held captive for 88 days.
2013
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Bohol in the Philippines, resulting in 222 deaths.
2011
Global demonstrations against economic inequality, corporate influence on government, and other issues, were held in more than 950 cities in 82 countries.
2007
New Zealand Police conducted several anti-terrorism raids in relation to the discovery of an alleged paramilitary training camp in the Urewera mountain ranges, arresting 17 people and seizing four guns and 230 rounds of ammunition.
2006
An earthquake registering 6.7 Mw occurred off the northwestern coast of the island of Hawaii.
1996
The Irish Criminal Assets Bureau was established following the gangland murders of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe and investigative journalist Veronica Guerin.
1979
President Carlos Humberto Romero of El Salvador was overthrown and exiled in a military coup d'état.
1967
The Motherland Calls (depicted in coat of arms), a colossal statue in Volgograd, Russia, which commemorates the casualties of the Battle of Stalingrad, was dedicated, becoming the then-tallest statue in the world.
1965
Vietnam War protests: At an anti-war rally in New York City, David J. Miller burned his draft card (example pictured), the first such act to result in arrest under a new amendment to the Selective Service Act.
1954
Hurricane Hazel made landfall in the Carolinas in the United States before moving north to Toronto in Canada later the same day, killing 176 people in the two countries.

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