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Robert Blake (actor)
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Robert Blake (actor)

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Robert Blake, billed early in his career as Mickey Gubitosi and Bobby Blake, was an American actor. He was best known for starring in the 1967 film In Cold Blood, and playing the title role in the late 1970s television series Baretta, Hell Town and playing the Mystery Man in the 1997 film Lost Highway.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 was an international passenger flight operated by Malaysia Airlines that disappeared from r…

Satish Kaushik
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Satish Kaushik
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Satish Chandra Kaushik was an Indian actor, director, producer, comedian, editor and screenwriter. He found fame in Boll…

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On This Day

10 events
2019
Ethiopian_Airlines_Flight_302
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 (aircraft pictured) crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, with the deaths of all 157 people on board.
2008
The_New_York_Times
The New York Times revealed that Eliot Spitzer (pictured), Governor of New York, had patronized a prostitution ring.
2006
NASA
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (artist's impression pictured) reached and entered orbit around Mars.
1990
Prosper_Avril
Eighteen months after seizing power, Prosper Avril was ousted as the military head of state of Haiti.
1977
NASA
Astronomers using NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory discovered a faint ring system around Uranus.
1975
1975_spring_offensive
Ho Chi Minh Campaign: North Vietnam began its final push for victory over South Vietnam with an attack on Ban Me Thuot.
1968
Vietnam_War
Vietnam War/Laotian Civil War: North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces overwhelmed the American, Laotian, Thai, and Hmong defenders of Lima Site 85.
1967
Progressive_rock
British progressive-rock band Pink Floyd released their first single, "Arnold Layne".
1966
Nguyễn_Cao_Kỳ
Military prime minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
1965
Thomas_Playford_IV
Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia, left office after 27 years, the longest term of any democratically elected leader in the history of Australia.

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