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2021-11-28

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Virgil Abloh
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Virgil Abloh

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Virgil Abloh was an American fashion designer and entrepreneur. A trained architect, Abloh founded his own line of luxury streetwear clothing under the moniker Pyrex Vision in 2012, which he transformed into the Milan based fashion label Off-White in 2013. Abloh was appointed artistic director of Louis Vuitton's menswe…

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Omicron
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Omicron is the fifteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. This letter is derived from the Phoenician letter ayin: . In clas…

Stephen Sondheim
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Stephen Sondheim
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th-cen…

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On This Day

10 events
2016
LaMia_Flight_2933
LaMia Flight 2933 crashed near Medellín, Colombia, killing 71 people, many of whom were players from Chapecoense Football Club.
1987
South_African_Airways_Flight_295
South African Airways Flight 295 suffered a catastrophic in-flight fire and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius, killing all 159 people on board.
1979
Mount_Erebus_disaster
Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed into Antarctica's Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
1967
Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell
Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a "bit of scruff" in data from a radio telescope, which turned out to be from PSR B1919+21, the first discovered pulsar.
1966
Michel_Micombero
In a military coup, Michel Micombero abolished the Burundian monarchy and declared the country a republic with himself as president.
1925
Grand_Ole_Opry
Grand Ole Opry, the longest-running radio broadcast in the United States, first aired on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee.
1912
All-Albanian_Congress
At the All-Albanian Congress, the Assembly of Vlorë was constituted, which declared the independence of the Albanian Vilayet from the Ottoman Empire.
1903
SS_Petriana
SS Petriana struck a reef near Point Nepean, leading to Australia's first major oil spill and a debate over the White Australia policy.
1895
Chicago_Times-Herald_race
The Chicago Times-Herald race, the first automobile race in the U.S., was held in Chicago.
1811
Ludwig_van_Beethoven
Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 premiered at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.

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