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Jerry Lee Lewis
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Jerry Lee Lewis

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Jerry Lee Lewis was an American pianist, singer, and songwriter. Nicknamed "The Killer", he was described as "rock 'n' roll's first great wild man". A pioneer of rock and roll and rockabilly music, Lewis made his first recordings in 1952 at Cosimo Matassa's J&M Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana, and early recordings in …

Charles Cullen
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Charles Cullen
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Charles Edmund Cullen is an American serial killer. While working as a nurse, Cullen murdered dozens—possibly hundreds—o…

Jeffrey Dahmer
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Jeffrey Dahmer
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Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and …

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On This Day

10 events
2013
Marmaray
The first phase of the Marmaray project opened with an undersea rail tunnel (train pictured) across the Bosphorus strait.
2012
Hurricane_Sandy
Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, made landfall in New Jersey and caused nearly $75 billion in damages, becoming the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history.
2007
Dai_Hong_Dan_incident
Somali pirates hijacked a North Korean ship in the Indian Ocean northeast of Mogadishu.
1999
1999_Odisha_cyclone
About 10,000 people died when the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Indian Ocean made landfall in the Indian state of Odisha near Bhubaneswar.
1998
John_Glenn
At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn (pictured) returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission.
1991
Galileo_(spacecraft)
Galileo became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid when it made a flyby of 951 Gaspra.
1986
Margaret_Thatcher
British prime minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25, one of Britain's busiest motorways.
1966
Chia_Thye_Poh
Singaporean leftist opposition leader Chia Thye Poh was detained under the Internal Security Act, which allows for preventive detention, and held for 32 years.
1960
Curtiss_C-46_Commando
A C-46 airliner carrying the Cal Poly Mustangs football team crashed during takeoff from Toledo Express Airport in Ohio, U.S., resulting in 22 deaths.
1956
Israel_Border_Police
Israeli Border Police massacred 48 Arab citizens of Kafr Qasim, among them women and children who were returning from work.

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