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2023-05-30

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Indian Premier League

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The Indian Premier League (IPL) is a professional Twenty20 (T20) cricket league in India, organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Founded in 2007, it features ten city-based franchise teams. The IPL is the most popular and richest cricket league in the world and the 13th richest sporting league i…

The Little Mermaid (2023 film)

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The Little Mermaid is a 2023 American musical fantasy film that is a live-action adaptation of Disney's 1989 animated fi…

2023 Indian Premier League

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The 2023 Indian Premier League was the 16th season of the Indian Premier League, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league in …

Caleb Martin (basketball)

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Succession (TV series)

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Cleopatra

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Chennai Super Kings

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On This Day

10 events

2008

Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions

The Convention on Cluster Munitions, prohibiting the use, transfer, and stockpiling of cluster bombs, was adopted.

2005

Disappearance_of_Natalee_Holloway

American student Natalee Holloway disappeared while on a high-school graduation trip to Aruba.

1998

May_1998_Afghanistan_earthquake

A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck northern Afghanistan, killing at least 4,000 people, destroying more than 30 villages, and leaving 45,000 people homeless.

1972

Japanese_Red_Army

Members of the Japanese Red Army carried out the Lod Airport massacre in Tel Aviv, Israel, on behalf of PFLP External Operations, killing over 20 people and injuring almost 80 others.

1969

Curaçao

A demonstration by workers and activists on the Caribbean island of Curaçao escalated into a violent uprising which destroyed much of Willemstad.

1963

Buddhist_crisis

Buddhist crisis: A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination was held outside the National Assembly of South Vietnam in Saigon, the first open demonstration against President Ngô Đình Diệm.

1959

Auckland_Harbour_Bridge

The Auckland Harbour Bridge, spanning Waitematā Harbour between the Saint Marys Bay and Northcote suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand, officially opened.

1948

Levee

A dike holding the Columbia River broke, causing a flood that destroyed Vanport, Oregon, U.S., only five years after the city was built.

1940

World_War_II

Second World War: HMS Cambrian was sunk by a mine in The Solent, with the loss of 23 lives.

1922

Lincoln_Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., featuring a sculpture of the sixteenth U.S. president Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French, opened.