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94th Academy Awards
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The 94th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on Ma…

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2016
American Dad! aired it's critically acclaimed two-hundredth episode.
2015
A siege of a hotel in Mogadishu by al-Shabaab militants, which began the previous day and killed at least 20 people, ended with the Somali Armed Forces recapturing the premises.
1999
Kosovo War: Serbian police and special forces killed around 93 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica.
1997
In the Tragedy of Otranto, the Italian Navy vessel Sibilla collided with the Albanian civilian vessel Kateri i Radës, causing the latter to sink and leading to dozens of deaths.
1979
British prime minister James Callaghan was defeated by one vote in a vote of no confidence after his government struggled to cope with widespread strikes during the Winter of Discontent.
1946
The US Department of State released the Acheson–Lilienthal Report, a proposal for the international control of nuclear weapons.
1942
Second World War: The port of Saint-Nazaire in German-occupied France was disabled by British naval forces (ship pictured).
1935
The Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will, directed by Leni Riefenstahl, premiered in Berlin.
1933
After an on-board fire that may have been the first incident of airliner sabotage, the Imperial Airways biplane City of Liverpool broke apart in mid-air, killing fifteen people.
1918
World War I: British and Australian troops defeated German forces at the First Battle of Dernancourt in northern France.

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