GlyphSignal — 2022-06-06 Top Wikipedia Reads

2022-06-06

Top reads and historical moments for this date. 7 min read

Angelo Moriondo

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Angelo Moriondo was an Italian inventor, who is usually credited with patenting the earliest known espresso machine, in 1884. His machine used a combination of steam and boiling water to efficiently brew coffee.

Hell in a Cell (2022)

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The 2022 Hell in a Cell was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It was …

Vikram (2022 film)

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Vikram is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj. Produced by Raaj Kamal Films I…

Top Gun: Maverick

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Stranger Things season 4

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On This Day

10 events

2021

2021_London,_Ontario,_truck_attack

A man rammed a pickup truck into Muslim Pakistani Canadian pedestrians in Ontario, Canada, killing 4 members of the same family and injuring the family's nine year old son.

2017

Syrian_civil_war

Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (soldiers pictured) opened the Second Battle of Raqqa, the final phase of the Raqqa campaign, capturing the de facto capital of the Islamic State four months later.

1985

Josef_Mengele

The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.

1982

Falklands_War

Falklands War: The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed a British Army helicopter in a friendly-fire incident.

1971

Hughes_Airwest_Flight_706

Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collided with a US Marine Corps jet near Duarte, California, killing 50 people.

1971

Vietnam_War

Vietnam War: Australian forces attacked a heavily fortified North Vietnamese base camp at the Battle of Long Khánh.

1944

World_War_II

World War II: Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious military operation in history, began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France.

1912

Novarupta

The largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century began, forming the volcano Novarupta in the Alaska Peninsula.

1894

Davis_Hanson_Waite

Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered the Colorado state militia to protect and support miners engaged in a five-month strike in Cripple Creek.

1882

Shewa

The Shewan army defeated Gojjame forces at the Battle of Embabo, an event that contributed to the supremacy of Shewa within the Ethiopian Empire.