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2023-07-16

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Carlos Alcaraz
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Carlos Alcaraz

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Carlos Alcaraz Garfia is a Spanish professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), and finished as the year-end No. 1 in 2022 and 2025. Alcaraz has won 26 ATP Tour–level singles titles, including seven majors and eight Masters titles. He …

Novak Djokovic
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Novak Djokovic
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Novak Djokovic is a Serbian professional tennis player. Djokovic has been ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by …

Jane Birkin
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Jane Birkin
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Jane Mallory Birkin was an English actress, singer, and designer. She had a prolific career as an actress, mostly in Fre…

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On This Day

10 events
2013
Bihar
At least 23 students died and dozens more fell ill at a primary school in the Indian state of Bihar after consuming a Midday Meal that was contaminated with pesticide.
2008
2008_Chinese_milk_scandal
A tainted milk powder scandal broke in China which ultimately involved an estimated 300,000 victims, the vast majority infants, with 54,000 hospitalized with kidney problems and six deaths.
2007
2007_Chūetsu_offshore_earthquake
An earthquake of magnitude .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Mw6.6 struck Niigata Prefecture, Japan, causing a leak of radioactive gases from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant.
2004
Millennium_Park
Millennium Park, a public park in Chicago, Illinois, and one of the world's largest rooftop gardens, opened to the public.
1994
Comet_Shoemaker–Levy_9
Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 began colliding with the planet Jupiter , with the first impact causing a fireball that reached a peak temperature of 24,000 kelvin.
1990
Surface-wave_magnitude
A 7.8 MS earthquake struck the densely populated Philippine island of Luzon, killing an estimated 1,621 people.
1983
Sikorsky_S-61
A Sikorsky S-61 helicopter operated by British Airways crashed in thick fog in the Celtic Sea, killing 20 of the 26 people on board.
1965
Army_of_the_Republic_of_Vietnam
South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo (pictured)—an undetected communist spy—was reported dead due to injuries sustained during his capture, but it is generally assumed he was killed on the orders of military officials.
1951
The_Catcher_in_the_Rye
The Catcher in the Rye, an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was first published (cover pictured).
1950
Korean_War
Korean War: A Korean People's Army unit massacred 31 prisoners of war of the U.S. Army on a mountain near the village of Tuman.

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